linux-kernel - Re: bdi_min_ratio never shrinks, ultimately preventing valid setting of min

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Message-ID: <1307525113.2322.291.camel@twins>
Date:	Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:25:13 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	lkml@...garu.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	miklos <miklos@...redi.hu>
Subject: Re: bdi_min_ratio never shrinks, ultimately preventing valid
 setting of min_ratio

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 17:13 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> I grabbed this, wrote a changelog and stuck your signed-off-by on it. 

Thanks, I was still waiting for feedback :/

> I also added a cc:stable but I didn't work out how far back in time it
> goes.  A long way, I think?

Yeah, ages ago:

commit 189d3c4a94ef19fca2a71a6a336e9fda900e25e7
Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Date:   Wed Apr 30 00:54:35 2008 -0700

    mm: bdi: allow setting a minimum for the bdi dirty limit

git describe --contains doesn't seem to want to give a -linus release,
my git foo is too weak :-(
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