linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add check for dirty_writeback_interval in bdi_wakeup_thread

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Date:	Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:26:29 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
To:	Raghavendra D Prabhu <rprabhu@...hang.net>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add check for dirty_writeback_interval in
 bdi_wakeup_thread_delayed

On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 14:46 +0530, Raghavendra D Prabhu wrote:
> I have set it to 500 centisecs as that is the default value of
> dirty_writeback_interval. I used this logic for following reason: the
> purpose for which dirty_writeback_interval is set to 0 is to disable
> periodic writeback
> (http://tomoyo.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/lxr/source/fs/fs-writeback.c#L818)
> , whereas here (in bdi_wakeup_thread_delayed) it is being used for a
> different purpose -- to delay the bdi wakeup in order to reduce context
> switches for  dirty inode writeback.

But why it wakes up the bdi thread? Exactly to make sure the periodic
write-back happen.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

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