Re: [RFC 1/7] cpuset write dirty map

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:16:50 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Ethan Solomita wrote:
> 
> > 	The effect of this patchset is straightforward. Without it there are
> > long hangs between appearances of the date. With it the dates are all 5
> > (or sometimes 6) seconds apart.
> > 
> > 	I also added printks to the kernel to verify that, without these
> > patches, the tee was being throttled (along with lots of other things),
> > and with the patch only pdflush is being throttled.
> 
> That sounds good. Andrew: Any chance that we can get this patchset merged?
> 

Is in my queue somewhere.  Could be that by the time I get to it it will
need refreshing (again), we'll see.

One open question is the interaction between these changes and with Peter's
per-device-dirty-throttling changes.  They also are in my queue somewhere. 
Having a 100:1 coder:reviewer ratio doesn't exactly make for swift
progress.


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