Re: Linux Writeback
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Hi Shirish,
On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 22:37 +0000, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>
> A little bit background is in order. See
> https://lwn.net/Articles/682582/ as well as
> https://lwn.net/Articles/685894/ to have some idea what Ritesh is
> talking about.
>
Thanks for the links. They should be a good read and must be well worded by the
editors.
> Both the articles gives necessary backgrounder. What is/would have
> been good is to get instructions as to how we can get it into our
> systems to see if it works and what sort of feedback we should be
> giving to Jens Axboe and how (in which form ?) .
>
I left out the specifics deliberately. :-)
Because it involves rolling out your own kernel. IMO, it is a simple process,
but for many it may not be so.
> Also how to figure out if it makes matters worse or not.
If you run the dd command on a regular linux kernel, like I mentioned initially,
you should hit the bug.
With Jens' patchset, it does seem to improve a lot.
> Also, it
> isn't clear if the solution doesn't create its own CPU/memory issues
> at all so we need to test for that as well. All and all, more info.
> is needed.
I haven't come across any issues but am very happy to see the implementation to
be inline with my understanding.
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System
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