linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: disallow direct reclaim page writeback

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Message-ID: <20100419030851.GA6344@thunk.org>
Date:	Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:08:51 -0400
From:	tytso@....edu
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
Cc:	Sorin Faibish <sfaibish@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: disallow direct reclaim page writeback

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 04:30:36PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > I for one am looking very seriously at this problem together with Bruce.
> > We plan to have a discussion on this topic at the next LSF meeting
> > in Boston.
> 
> As luck would have it, the Memory Management summit is co-located with
> the Storage and Filesystem workshop ... how about just planning to lock
> all the protagonists in a room if it's not solved by August.  The less
> extreme might even like to propose topics for the plenary sessions ...

I'd personally hope that this is solved long before the LSF/VM
workshops.... but if not, yes, we should definitely tackle it then.

      	     	       	  	 	    	   - Ted
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