linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/3] fix illogical behavior in balance_dirty

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Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:30:27 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, dgc@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] fix illogical behavior in balance_dirty_pages()

On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 02:08 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:32:47 +0200 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:
> 
> > Stopping writers which have idle queues is completely unproductive,
> > and that is basically what the current algorithm does.
> 
> This is because the kernel permits all of its allotment of dirty+writeback
> pages to be dirty+writeback against a single device.
> 
> A good way of solving the one-device-starves-another-one problem is to
> dynamically adjust the per-device dirty+writeback levels so that (for
> example) if two devices are being written to, each gets 50% of the
> allotment.

This is exactly what happens with my patch if both devices write at the
same speed. (Or at least, that is what is supposed to happen ;-)

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