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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, peterz@infradead.org, jack@suse.cz,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	npiggin@suse.de
Subject: Re: Increase dirty_ratio and dirty_background_ratio?
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:55:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231433701.14304.24.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901080842180.3283@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 08:48 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 03:02:45 -0800
> > 
> > > The kernel can't get this right - it doesn't know the usage
> > > patterns/workloads, etc.
> > 
> > I don't agree with that.
> 
> We can certainly try to tune it better. 
> 

Does it make sense to hook into kupdate?  If kupdate finds it can't meet
the no-data-older-than 30 seconds target, it lowers the sync/async combo
down to some reasonable bottom.  

If it finds it is going to sleep without missing the target, raise the
combo up to some reasonable top.

-chris


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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-08 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20090107154517.GA5565@duck.suse.cz>
2009-01-07 16:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-07 16:39   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-07 20:51     ` David Miller
2009-01-08 11:02       ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-08 16:24         ` David Miller
2009-01-08 16:48           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-08 16:55             ` Chris Mason [this message]
2009-01-08 17:05               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-08 19:57                 ` Jan Kara
2009-01-08 20:01                   ` David Miller
2009-01-09 18:02                   ` Jan Kara
2009-01-09 19:00                     ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-09 19:07                     ` Chris Mason
2009-01-09 22:31                     ` david
2009-01-09 21:34                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-14  3:29                 ` Nick Piggin

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