Re: [VM PATCH 2.6.6-rc3-bk5] Dirty balancing in the presence of mappedpages

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 22:27:09 EST


Nick Piggin wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:

Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


It doesn't do the wakeup_bdflush thing, but that sounds
like a good idea. What does wakeup_bdflush(-1) mean?



It appears that it will cause pdflush to write out down to
dirty_background_ratio.


Yeah. So wakeup_bdflush(0) would be more consistent?


No. Sorry, next time I'll actually read the code :|
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