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SubjectRe: per-bdi-throttling: synchronous writepage doesn't work correctly
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> > Hi,
> >
> > It looks like bdi_thresh will always be zero if filesystem does
> > synchronous writepage, resulting in very poor write performance.
> >
> > Hostfs (UML) is one such example, but there might be others.
> >
> > The only solution I can think of is to add a set_page_writeback();
> > end_page_writeback() pair (or some reduced variant, that only does
> > the proportions magic). But that means auditing quite a few
> > filesystems...
>
> Ouch...
>
> I take it there is no other function that is shared between all these
> writeout paths which we could stick a bdi_writeout_inc(bdi) in?

No, and you can't detect it from the callers either I think.

Miklos
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