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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Manjong Lee <mj0123.lee@samsung.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	seunghwan.hyun@samsung.com, sookwan7.kim@samsung.com,
	nanich.lee@samsung.com, yt0928.kim@samsung.com,
	junho89.kim@samsung.com, jisoo2146.oh@samsung.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: bdi: Initialize bdi_min_ratio when bdi unregister
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 03:58:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXIoxefk8UDDCt0M@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211021194530.1fabf4fa45cfe3bee6598484@linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 07:45:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 13:01:30 +0100 Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 04:16:52AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 01:19:43AM +0900, Manjong Lee wrote:
> > > > Because when sdcard is removed, bdi_min_ratio value will remain.
> > > > Currently, the only way to reset bdi_ min_ratio is to reboot.
> > > 
> > > But bdis that are unregistered are never re-registered.  What is
> > > the problem you're trying to solve?
> > 
> > The global bdi_min_ratio needs to be adjusted.  See
> > bdi_set_min_ratio() in mm/page-writeback.c.
> 
> I added cc:stable to this and tweaked the comment & coding style a bit:

Definitely improvements on that front.

I don't know the BDI code particularly well, and the implementation of
bdi_set_min_ratio() confuses me, so I can't say whether the original
patch is clearly correct or not.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-22  2:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20211021072307epcas1p4aa4388c13e71a66e3e1d5f7ee68b5a7f@epcas1p4.samsung.com>
2021-10-21 16:19 ` Manjong Lee
2021-10-21 11:16   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-21 12:01     ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-10-22  2:45       ` Andrew Morton
2021-10-22  2:58         ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
     [not found]           ` <CGME20211022043310epcas1p22952e8fa3eb3675717badae9a3e1223e@epcas1p2.samsung.com>
2021-10-22 13:39             ` Manjong Lee
2021-12-10 21:35           ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-12-10 21:36         ` Peter Zijlstra

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