Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> writes: >> Duplicate flusher - many FSes has own task to flush. Odd behavior in >> the case of partition - agree, but I'm not sure why metadata is ok, and >> it is not odd behavior. > Well, because there is much more of data pages then there is metadata. So > when you do strange things (like refuse to write / reclaim) with metadata, > it usually ends up in the noise. But when you start doing similar things > with data pages, people will notice.
Could you explain more. So, you are thinking we have to fix current behavior for metadata intensive applications? And what will people notice? >> Sorry, I'm not sure your point in latest comment. You are just saying FS >> must flush pages on writepages()? > Yes. > >> And if alternative plan is acceptable, maybe I will not have interest to >> this anymore. > Yes, the alternative plan looks better to me. But all in all I don't want > to stop you from your experiments :) I mostly just wanted to point out that > disabling flusher thread for a filesystem has a complex consequences which > IMHO bring more bad than good. OK, thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirof...@mail.parknet.co.jp> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
