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From:
Fengguang Wu <wfg@...>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...>, Greg KH <gregkh@...>, Chakri n <chakriin5@...>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...>, Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@...>, linux-pm <linux-pm@...>, lkml <linux-kernel@...>, richard kennedy <richard@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>
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Re: [PATCH] writeback: avoid possible balance_dirty_pages() lockup on a light-load bdi
Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - 9:27 am
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:13:27PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: [...]
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> One more serious problem is, a busy writer could also drain all the > dirty pages and make (nr_writeback == dirty_limit+1MB). In that case, > I suspect the light-load sdb writer still have good chance to > make progress(need confirmation).
Well it seems to be a really tricky issue without knowing the per-bdi numbers. Maybe we could just encourage users to upgrade to 2.6.24... -
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