Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

[Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:10:15 -0700
> "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org> wrote:
>
> > Why isn't this easily fixable by just adding an additional dirty
> > flag that says atime has changed? Then we only cause a write
> > when we remove the inode from the inode cache, if only atime
> > is updated.
> I think that could be made to work, and it would fix the performance
> issue.
>
> It is a behaviour change.  At present ext3 (for example) commits everything
> every five seconds.  After a change like this, a crash+recovery could cause
> a file's atime to go backwards by an arbitrarily large time interval - it
> could easily be months.
A second pdflush / workqueue at a slower rate would alleviate that.

Yes, it's a semantic change ... but only in an incredibly small
corner-case ?

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