Re: [rfc] approach to pull writepage out of reclaim

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:06:15PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> > So. Firstly, what I'm looking at is doing swap writeout from pdflush. This
> > patch does that (working in concept, but pdflush and background writeout
> > from dirty inode list isn't really up to the task, might scrap it and do the
> > writeout from kswap). But writeout from radix-tree should actually be able to
> > give better swapout pattern than LRU writepage as well.
> 
> Patch is missing from the message.

It's no longer acceptable to post descriptions of what you're about to
do?  You have to invest lots of time into creating a patch and testing that
it works before posting it (only to have it shot down because someone
disagrees with the design of your solution)?  Really?

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."

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