Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: per-bdi-throttling: synchronous writepage doesn't work correctly | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:28:49 +0100 |
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> The page not having PG_writeback set on return is a hint, but not fool > proof, it could be the device is just blazing fast.
Hmm, does it actually has to be foolproof though? What will happen if bdi_writeout_inc() is called twice for the page? The device will get twice the number of pages it deserves? That's not all that bad, especially since that is a really really fast device.
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