On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 20:57 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

quoted

The next point then, I'd expect your fuse_page_mkwrite() to push
writeout of your 32-odd mmap pages instead of poll.

You're talking about this:

+	wait_event(fc->writeback_waitq,
+		   fc->numwrite < FUSE_WRITEBACK_THRESHOLD);

right?  It's one of the things I need to clean out, there's no point
in fc->numwrite, which is essentially the same as the BDI_WRITEBACK
counter.

OTOH, I'm thinking about adding a per-fs limit (adjustable for
privileged mounts) of dirty+writeback.

I'm not sure how hard would it be to add support for this into
balance_dirty_pages().  So I'm thinking of a parameter in struct
backing_dev_info that is used to clip the calculated per-bdi threshold
below this maximum.

How would that affect the proportions algorithm?  What would happen to
the unused portion?  Would it adapt to the slowed writeback and
allocate it to some other writer?

The unused part is gone, I've not yet found a way to re-distribute this
fairly.

[ It's one of my open-problems, I can do a min_ratio per bdi, but not
  yet a max_ratio ]

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