Re: [patch 1/6] mm: bdi: tweak task dirty penalty

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:49:01 +0100
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Penalizing heavy dirtiers with 1/8-th the total dirty limit might be rather
> excessive on large memory machines. Use sqrt to scale it sub-linearly.

Then again, it might not be.

I'll skip this one.  Please resend if/when it is proven to be a net benefit
across a broad range of workloads.  And stuff like that.
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