linux-kernel - Re: splice: move balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() outside of splice actor

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:06:23 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: splice: move balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() outside of 
	splice actor

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 13:31 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:

> Would you prefer this change, then? I'd prefer keeping the current code,
> unless it's absolutely critical that we call
> balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() for each and every page instead of eg
> every 16 pages here.

For that we should call:
  balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(mapping, nr);

Which is ok, for small nr.


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