Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: balance_dirty_pages. reduce calls toglobal_page_state to reduce cache references

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Richard Kennedy wrote:
> The old behavior was to use NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP to clip the bdi
> thresholds.

Right.

> Should we continue to do this or just ignore NR_WRIEBACK_TEMP completely
> in balance_dirty_pages ?

I think we should.  Using NR_WRIEBACK_TEMP for setting up per-bdi
thresholds should be OK.  It limits the total number of writback pages
(including fuse ones) but doesn't prevent individual bdi's from
continuing writback at their own pace.

Thanks,
Miklos
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