linux-kernel - Re: per bdi dirty balancing (was Re: kupdate weirdness)

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Date:	Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:41:10 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	peterz@...radead.org
CC:	miklos@...redi.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: per bdi dirty balancing (was Re: kupdate weirdness)

> > My plan is to extract the minimal set of features from your patchset,
> > that solves the dirty balancing deadlocks and submit them as quickly
> > as possible.
> 
> I had hoped to post a new version yesterday, but lets hope for today.

Would be cool.

> > After that we can look at trying to solve the more ambitious problem
> > of the slow vs. fast devices in a way that not only you can understand ;)
> 
> Drad, and here I thought all that documentation in the proportions lib
> would have solved that :-(

Well, I didn't get that far, and only had a glimpse of the proportions
lib.  But my hunch is that there's still lots of room for simplification.

Miklos
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