From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:05:41 -0400 From: Chris Mason Subject: Re: [RFC] using writepage to start io Message-ID: <41340000.996631541@tiny> In-Reply-To: <01080103011705.00303@starship> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Daniel Phillips , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@transmeta.com List-ID: On Wednesday, August 01, 2001 03:01:17 AM +0200 Daniel Phillips wrote: > Hi, Chris > > On Tuesday 31 July 2001 21:07, Chris Mason wrote: >> I had to keep some of the flush_dirty_buffer calls as page_launder >> wasn't triggering enough i/o on its own. What I'd like to do now is >> experiment with changing bdflush to only write pages off the inactive >> dirty lists. > > Will kupdate continue to enforce the "no dirty buffer older than > XX" guarantee? Yes, kupdate still calls flush_dirty_buffers(1). I'm curious to see how your write early stuff interacts with it all though.... -chris -- 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/