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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:59:02 +1100 From: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> To: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: buffer heads: Support slab defrag On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:49:41PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Defragmentation support for buffer heads. We convert the references to > buffers to struct page references and try to remove the buffers from > those pages. If the pages are dirty then trigger writeout so that the > buffer heads can be removed later. NACK. We don't want another random single page writeback trigger into the VM - it will only slow down cleaning of dirty pages by causing disk thrashing (i.e. turns writeback into small random write workload), and that will ultimately slow down the rate at which we can reclaim buffer heads. Hence I suggest that if the buffer head is dirty, then just ignore it - it'll be cleaned soon enough by one of the other mechanisms we have and then it can be reclaimed in a later pass. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@...morbit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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