Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:36:43 -0700 | Subject | Re: Disabling in-memory write cache for x86-64 in Linux II | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 21:30:50 +0100 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote: > >> Andrew has queued up a patch series from Maxim Patlasov which removes this >> caveat but currently we don't have a way admin can switch that from >> userspace. But I'd like to have that tunable from userspace exactly for the >> cases as you describe below. > > This? > > mm/page-writeback.c: add strictlimit feature > > That's already in mainline, for 3.12.
Nothing currently actually *sets* the BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT flag, though.
So it's a potential fix, but it's certainly not a fix now.
Linus
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