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

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Message-ID: <20070327003045.GV32597093@melbourne.sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:30:45 +1100
From:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	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, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:30:27PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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 ;-)

The testing that I did of Peter's patch showed that this cache
splitting works as advertised for multiple devices writing at
the same speed.

(http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117437686328396&w=2)

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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