From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:21:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 In-Reply-To: <20070803123712.987126000@chello.nl> Message-ID: References: <20070803123712.987126000@chello.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, miklos@szeredi.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, neilb@suse.de, dgc@sgi.com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com, nikita@clusterfs.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, yingchao.zhou@gmail.com, richard@rsk.demon.co.uk List-ID: On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > These patches aim to improve balance_dirty_pages() and directly address three > issues: > 1) inter device starvation > 2) stacked device deadlocks > 3) inter process starvation Ok, the patches certainly look pretty enough, and you fixed the only thing I complained about last time (naming), so as far as I'm concerned it's now just a matter of whether it *works* or not. I guess being in -mm will help somewhat, but it would be good to have people with several disks etc actively test this out. Linus -- 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