linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/8] Cpuset aware writeback

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703211428430.4832@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:29:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Ethan Solomita <solo@...gle.com>
cc:	akpm@...l.org, Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Paul Jackson <pj@....com>,
	Dave Chinner <dgc@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/8] Cpuset aware writeback

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Ethan Solomita wrote:

> Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Ethan Solomita wrote:
> > 
> > >    Hi Christoph -- has anything come of resolving the NFS / OOM concerns
> > > that
> > > Andrew Morton expressed concerning the patch? I'd be happy to see some
> > > progress on getting this patch (i.e. the one you posted on 1/23) through.
> > 
> > Peter Zilkstra addressed the NFS issue. I will submit the patch again as
> > soon as the writeback code stabilizes a bit.
> 
> 	I'm pinging to see if this has gotten anywhere. Are you ready to
> resubmit? Do we have the evidence to convince Andrew that the NFS issues are
> resolved and so this patch won't obscure anything?

The NFS patch went into Linus tree a couple of days ago and I have a new 
version ready with additional support to set per dirty ratios per cpu. 
There is some interest in adding more VM controls to this patch. I hope I 
can post the next rev by tomorrow.

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