On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 02:55 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:52:01 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Count per BDI reclaimable pages; nr_reclaimable = nr_dirty + nr_unstable.
>
> hm. Aggregating dirty and unstable at inc/dec time is a bit kludgy. If
> later on we want to know just "dirty" then we're in trouble.
>
> I can see the logic behind it though.
>
> Perhaps one could have separate BDI_DIRTY and BDI_UNSTABLE and treat them
> separately at inc/dec time, but give them the same numerical value, so
> they in fact refer to the same counter. That's kludgy too.
:-(
I struggled with it too; don't have a ready solution either. I'll do
whatever the consensus agrees upon.
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