Re: [PATCH] bdi flusher should not be throttled here when it fall into buddy slow path
From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Oct 20 2016 - 09:28:53 EST
On Thu 20-10-16 20:38:05, zhouxianrong@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: z00281421 <z00281421@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The bdi flusher should be throttled only depends on
> own bdi and is decoupled with others.
>
> separate PGDAT_WRITEBACK into PGDAT_ANON_WRITEBACK and
> PGDAT_FILE_WRITEBACK avoid scanning anon lru and it is ok
> then throttled on file WRITEBACK.
Could you please answer questions from
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161018114207.GD12092@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx before
coming up with new and even more complex patches please?
I would really like to understand the issue you are seeing before
jumping into patches...
Thanks!
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs