Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Change in default vm_dirty_ratio | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:55:53 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 12:54 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > 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. > > That's the easy bit taken care of. ;)
Unless we're in laptop mode, in that case we want to procrastinate.. :-)
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