From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:22:04 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC 1/7] cpuset write dirty map Message-Id: <20070626152204.b6b4bc3f.akpm@google.com> In-Reply-To: References: <465FB6CF.4090801@google.com> <46646A33.6090107@google.com> <468023CA.2090401@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Ethan Solomita , linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl List-ID: On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:16:50 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Ethan Solomita wrote: > > > The effect of this patchset is straightforward. Without it there are > > long hangs between appearances of the date. With it the dates are all 5 > > (or sometimes 6) seconds apart. > > > > I also added printks to the kernel to verify that, without these > > patches, the tee was being throttled (along with lots of other things), > > and with the patch only pdflush is being throttled. > > That sounds good. Andrew: Any chance that we can get this patchset merged? > Is in my queue somewhere. Could be that by the time I get to it it will need refreshing (again), we'll see. One open question is the interaction between these changes and with Peter's per-device-dirty-throttling changes. They also are in my queue somewhere. Having a 100:1 coder:reviewer ratio doesn't exactly make for swift progress. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org