Re: [PATCH 13/14] fs,btrfs: Allow kswapd to writeback pages

[Mel Gorman]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:05:04AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:34:47PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > As only kswapd and memcg are writing back pages, there should be no
> > danger of overflowing the stack. Allow the writing back of dirty pages
> > in btrfs from the VM.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> But, this is only the metadata writepage.  fs/btrfs/inode.c has another
> one for data pages.  (just look for PF_MEMALLOC).
> 

My bad, fixed now. Thanks.

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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