> On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 22:55 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > This is a slightly different take on the fix for the deadlock in fuse > > with dirty balancing. David Chinner convinced me, that per-bdi > > counters are too expensive, and that it's not worth trying to account > > the number of pages under writeback, as they will be limited by the > > queue anyway. > > > > Please have a look at this: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/19/220
> + if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK) <= > + bdi_thresh) > + break; > Yes, this will resolve the deadlock as well, where balance_dirty_pages() is currently looping forever with: bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK) == 0 Thanks, Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
