Re: Change in default vm_dirty_ratio

Mark Lord
2007-06-21T16:54:30Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> What do we actually want the kernel to *do*? Stated in terms of "when the
> dirty memory state is A, do B" and "when userspace does C, the kernel should
> do D".

When we have dirty pages awaiting write-out,
and the write-out device is completely idle,
then we should be writing them out.

That's the easy bit taken care of. ;)