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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
To: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove throttle_vm_writeout()
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:07:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IdXuZ-0002Sk-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1191516427.5574.7.camel@lappy> (message from Peter Zijlstra on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:47:07 +0200)

> Yeah, I'm guestimating O on a per device basis, but I agree that the
> current ratio limiting is quite crude. I'm not at all sorry to see
> throttle_vm_writeback() go, I just wanted to make a point that what it
> does is not quite without merrit - we agree that it can be done better
> differently.

Yes.  So what is it to be?

Is limiting by device queues enough?

Or do we need some global limit?

If so, the cleanest way I see is to separately account and limit
swap-writeback pages, so the global counters don't interfere with the
limiting.

This shouldn't be hard to do, as we have the per-bdi writeback
counting infrastructure already, and also a pseudo bdi for swap in
swapper_space.backing_dev_info.

Miklos

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-04 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-04 12:25 Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-04 12:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-04 13:00   ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-04 13:23     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-04 13:49       ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-04 16:47         ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-04 17:46           ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-04 18:10             ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-04 18:54               ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]             ` <20071005123028.GA10372@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-05 12:30               ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-05 17:20                 ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]                   ` <20071006023224.GA7526@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-06  2:32                     ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-07 23:54               ` David Chinner
     [not found]                 ` <20071008003349.GA5455@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-08  0:33                   ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-04 21:07           ` Miklos Szeredi [this message]
2007-10-04 21:56 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-04 22:39   ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-04 23:09     ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-04 23:26       ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-04 23:48         ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-05  0:12           ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-05  0:48             ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-05  8:22               ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-05  9:22                 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-05  9:47                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-05 10:27                     ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-05 10:32                       ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-05 15:43                         ` John Stoffel
2007-10-05 10:57                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-05 11:27                         ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-05 17:50                         ` Trond Myklebust
2007-10-05 18:32                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-05 19:20                             ` Trond Myklebust
2007-10-05 19:23                               ` Trond Myklebust
2007-10-05 21:07                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
     [not found]                             ` <20071006004028.GA7121@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-06  0:40                               ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-05  7:32       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-05 19:54         ` Rik van Riel

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