Thread (58 messages) 58 messages, 6 authors, 2012-03-12

Re: [PATCH 8/9] mm: dont set __GFP_WRITE on ramfs/sysfs writes

From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Date: 2012-03-01 10:14:29
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:00:30PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
Try to avoid page reclaim waits when writing to ramfs/sysfs etc.

Maybe not a big deal...
This looks like a separate fix that would make sense standalone.  It's
not just the waits, there is not much of a point in skipping zones
during allocation based on the dirty usage which they'll never
contribute to.  Could you maybe pull this up front?
CC: Johannes Weiner <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <redacted>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

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