Re: [PATCH 8/8] block: hook up writeback throttling

2016-11-08 Thread Jens Axboe
On 11/08/2016 06:42 AM, Jan Kara wrote: On Tue 01-11-16 15:08:51, Jens Axboe wrote: Enable throttling of buffered writeback to make it a lot more smooth, and has way less impact on other system activity. Background writeback should be, by definition, background activity. The fact that we flush h

Re: [PATCH 8/8] block: hook up writeback throttling

2016-11-08 Thread Jan Kara
On Tue 01-11-16 15:08:51, Jens Axboe wrote: > Enable throttling of buffered writeback to make it a lot > more smooth, and has way less impact on other system activity. > Background writeback should be, by definition, background > activity. The fact that we flush huge bundles of it at the time > mea