lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2010]   [Jul]   [1]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH 13/14] fs,btrfs: Allow kswapd to writeback pages
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:05:04AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:34:47PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > As only kswapd and memcg are writing back pages, there should be no
> > danger of overflowing the stack. Allow the writing back of dirty pages
> > in btrfs from the VM.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
>
> But, this is only the metadata writepage. fs/btrfs/inode.c has another
> one for data pages. (just look for PF_MEMALLOC).
>

My bad, fixed now. Thanks.

--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2010-07-01 11:57    [W:0.368 / U:0.192 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site