Re: [PATCH 8/8] vm: Add an tuning knob for vm.max_writeback_mb

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Sep 09 2009 - 08:51:57 EST


On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:44:50PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > bdi_start_writeback and not writeback_inodes_wbc from
> > balance_dirty_pages. But you sent our another spin or two afer those,
> > so maybe it changed again.
>
> Yes, that's the very end check, the old code does the same. Further up
> it does writeback_inodes_wbc() if we are over the threshold.

Aehm, true. It was still a sync_inodes_wbc in my tree..

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