linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 9/9] writeback: trace global_dirty

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Message-ID: <20110701154509.GB17881@localhost>
Date:	Fri, 1 Jul 2011 23:45:10 +0800
From:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] writeback: trace global_dirty_state

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 11:18:01PM +0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:52:54PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > Add trace event balance_dirty_state for showing the global dirty page
> > counts and thresholds at each global_dirty_limits() invocation.  This
> > will cover the callers throttle_vm_writeout(), over_bground_thresh()
> > and each balance_dirty_pages() loop.
> 
> Given that this is a rather uncontoversial diagnostics patch I'd
> move it to the front of the queue.

Yeah it was.. since then it's expanded with the global dirty limit
field, which is newly introduced in [PATCH 6/9].

I'll move it before the larger-chunk-size patch :)

Thanks,
Fengguang
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