From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07B596B0047 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:46:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: by iwn33 with SMTP id 33so7197783iwn.14 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:46:02 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100913130149.849935145@intel.com> References: <20100913123110.372291929@intel.com> <20100913130149.849935145@intel.com> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:46:01 +0900 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] writeback: integrated background work From: Minchan Kim Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Wu Fengguang Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Mel Gorman , Rik van Riel , Johannes Weiner , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , KOSAKI Motohiro , Jan Kara , Andrew Morton List-ID: Hi Wu, On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Wu Fengguang wrot= e: > Check background work whenever the flusher thread wakes up. =A0The page > reclaim code may lower the soft dirty limit immediately before sending > some work to the flusher thread. I looked over this series. First impression is the approach is good. :) But let me have a question. I can't find things about soft dirty limit. Maybe it's a thing based on your another patch series. But at least, could you explain it in this series if it is really related to this series? > > This is also the prerequisite of next patch. I can't understand why is the prerequisite of next patch. Please specify it. > > Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang --=20 Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- 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