* balance_dirty_pages ratelimiting
@ 2018-05-21 5:53 Benjamin Peterson
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From: Benjamin Peterson @ 2018-05-21 5:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
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The comment for balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited explains rate limiting is necessary because "On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive". This comment is stale, since get_writeback_state has not existed for more than 10 years. I gather, however, that its expense arose from aggregating vmstats over all cpus. These days, global vmstats are simply a memory load. Is there a modern reason for rate limiting balance_dirty_pages?
Thanks,
Benjamin
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