From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id 69BBC38C60 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:39:23 -0300 (EST) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:39:12 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill flush_dirty_buffers 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: Linus Torvalds Cc: Chris Mason , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The other issue is that I suspect that "flushtime" is completely useless > these days, and should just be dropped. If we've decided to start flushing > stuff out, we shouldn't stop flushing just because some buffer hasn't > quite reached the proper age yet. We'd have been better off maybe deciding > not to even _start_ flushing at all, but once we've started, we might as > well do the dirty buffers we see (up to a maximum that is due to IO > _latency_, not due to "how long since this buffer was dirtied") OTOH, we don't want flushing to _stop_ early because we already submitted lots of IO ;) Rik -- Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)" http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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/