Re: [PATCH] remove throttle_vm_writeout()

[Miklos Szeredi]

> So how do we end up with more writeback pages than that? should we teach
> pdflush about these limits as well?

Ugh.

I think we should rather fix vmscan to not spin when all pages of a
zone are already under writeout.  Which is the _real_ problem,
according to Andrew.

Miklos
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