On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> >With the attached patch, try_to_free_buffers() wakes up kflushd if the
> >percentage of dirty memory is high, independant of sync_page_buffers
>
> It's wrong to do that there. kflushd is just wakenup by the guy that
> generated the dirty data.
Why that is wrong?
If we have more than a certain percentage of the memory dirty, we should
wakeup kflushd. IMO it doesnt matter _who_ is waking up kflushd.
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