linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/18] writeback: charge leaked page dirties to active tasks

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Message-ID: <20110907090615.GA13841@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 7 Sep 2011 17:06:16 +0800
From:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Andrea Righi <arighi@...eler.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/18] writeback: charge leaked page dirties to active
 tasks

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:16:36AM +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 09:53 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > The solution is to charge the pages dirtied by the exited gcc to the
> > other random gcc/dd instances.
> 
> random dirtying task, seeing it lacks a !strcmp(t->comm, "gcc") || !
> strcmp(t->comm, "dd") clause.

OK.

> >  It sounds not perfect, however should
> > behave good enough in practice. 
> 
> Seeing as that throttled tasks aren't actually running so those that are
> running are more likely to pick it up and get throttled, therefore
> promoting an equal spread.. ?

Exactly. Let me write that into changelog :)

Thanks,
Fengguang
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