From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 22:52:18 -0300 (BRT) From: Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: VM tuning patch, take 2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Jonathan Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > I have a similar patch which makes processes wait on IO completion > when they find too many dirty pages on the inactive_dirty list ;) If we ever want to make that PageLaunder thing reality (well, if we realy want a decent VM we _need_ that) we need to make the accouting on a buffer_head basis and decrease the amount of data being written out to disk at end_buffer_io_sync(). The reason is write() --- its impossible to account for pages written via write(). :( -- 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/