Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:54:20 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Change in default vm_dirty_ratio |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > > What do we actually want the kernel to *do*? Stated in terms of "when the > dirty memory state is A, do B" and "when userspace does C, the kernel should > do D".
When we have dirty pages awaiting write-out, and the write-out device is completely idle, then we should be writing them out.
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