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Message-ID: <20070928011846.GA5496@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:18:46 +0800
From: Fengguang Wu <wfg@...l.ustc.edu.cn>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@...hat.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] writeback: remove unnecessary wait in
throttle_vm_writeout()
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:16:10AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:50:16 +0800
> Fengguang Wu <wfg@...l.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:
>
> > We don't want to introduce pointless delays in throttle_vm_writeout()
> > when the writeback limits are not yet exceeded, do we?
>
> Good catch.
Thank you.
> > Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@...l.ustc.edu.cn>
>
> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
It could be a good fix for 2.6.22/23. But for -mm, I'm not
sure if throttle_vm_writeout() will be eventually removed ;-)
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