On Friday, January 05, 2001 04:32:50 PM -0200 Marcelo Tosatti
<marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
>> > I think we want to remove flush_dirty_buffers() from bdflush.
>> >
>>
>> Whoops. If bdflush doesn't balance the dirty list, who does?
>
> Who marks buffers dirty.
>
> Linus changed mark_buffer_dirty() to use flush_dirty_buffers() in case
> there are too many dirty buffers.
>
Yes, but mark_buffer_dirty only ends up calling flush_dirty_buffers when
balance_dirty_state returns 1. This means the only people balancing are
the procs (not some async daemon), and the writing only starts when we are
over the hard dirty limit.
-chris
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