On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:01:57 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:42:21 +0200
> > [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > > Now that we have per BDI dirty throttling is makes sense to also have oer BDI
> > > congestion feedback; why wait on another device if the current one is not
> > > congested.
> >
> > Similar comments apply. congestion_wait() should be called
> > throttle_at_a_rate_proportional_to_the_speed_of_presently_uncongested_queues().
> >
> > If a process is throttled in the page allocator waiting for pages to become
> > reclaimable, that process absolutely does not care whether those pages were
> > previously dirty against /dev/sda or against /dev/sdb. It wants to be woken
> > up for writeout completion against any queue.
>
> OK, so you disagree with Miklos' 2nd point here:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/4/137
Yup, silly man thought that "congestion_wait" has something to do with
congestion ;) I think it sort-of used to, once.
Now it really means no more than "block until a batch of writes complete".
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