Re: [PATCH] improve the performance of large sequential write NFSworkloads

[Trond Myklebust]

On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 19:37 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: 
> On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 13:26 -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > OK. It looks as if the only key to finding out how many unstable writes
> > we have is to use global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS), so we can't
> > specifically target our own backing-dev. 
> 
> Would be a simple matter of splitting BDI_UNSTABLE out from
> BDI_RECLAIMABLE, no?
> 
> Something like

OK. How about if we also add in a bdi->capabilities flag to tell that we
might have BDI_UNSTABLE? That would allow us to avoid the potentially
expensive extra calls to bdi_stat() and bdi_stat_sum() for the non-nfs
case?

Cheers
   Trond
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