Re: [PATCH 8/8] vm: Add an tuning knob for vm.max_writeback_mb

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 02:06:01PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
Well, we can mostly do this now, using the XFS hack:

wbc->nr_to_write *= 4;

Which is another way of saying, we *know* the page writeback routines
are on crack, so we'll ignore their suggestion of how many pages to
write, and we'll try to write more than what they asked us to write.

(This wasn't a proposed change; it's in Linux 2.6 mainline already;
see fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c, in xfs_vm_writepage). The fact that
filesystems are playing games like this should be a clear indication
that things are badly broken above....

Note that we did not put in this hack behind anyones back. The first
version from Chris was posted on fsdevel, lkml, the ext3 list and so on:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/9/237


An when we finally decided that we absolute need it it also made another
roundtrip to linux-mm to hope that we'd get something better from the VM
people:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.xfs.general/29663

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