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Message-Id: <1195156900.22457.32.camel@lappy>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:01:39 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] fuse writable mmap design
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 20:57 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > The next point then, I'd expect your fuse_page_mkwrite() to push
> > writeout of your 32-odd mmap pages instead of poll.
>
> You're talking about this:
>
> + wait_event(fc->writeback_waitq,
> + fc->numwrite < FUSE_WRITEBACK_THRESHOLD);
>
> right? It's one of the things I need to clean out, there's no point
> in fc->numwrite, which is essentially the same as the BDI_WRITEBACK
> counter.
>
> OTOH, I'm thinking about adding a per-fs limit (adjustable for
> privileged mounts) of dirty+writeback.
>
> I'm not sure how hard would it be to add support for this into
> balance_dirty_pages(). So I'm thinking of a parameter in struct
> backing_dev_info that is used to clip the calculated per-bdi threshold
> below this maximum.
>
> How would that affect the proportions algorithm? What would happen to
> the unused portion? Would it adapt to the slowed writeback and
> allocate it to some other writer?
The unused part is gone, I've not yet found a way to re-distribute this
fairly.
[ It's one of my open-problems, I can do a min_ratio per bdi, but not
yet a max_ratio ]
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