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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:32:50 -0200 (BRST)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)
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On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote:

> 
> 
> On Friday, January 05, 2001 01:43:07 PM -0200 Marcelo Tosatti
> <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> Here's the latest version of the patch, against 2.4.0.  The
> >> biggest open issues are what to do with bdflush, since
> >> page_launder could do everything bdflush does.  
> > 
> > I think we want to remove flush_dirty_buffers() from bdflush. 
> > 
> 
> Whoops.  If bdflush doesn't balance the dirty list, who does?

Who marks buffers dirty. 

Linus changed mark_buffer_dirty() to use flush_dirty_buffers() in case
there are too many dirty buffers.

Also, I think in practice page_launder will help on balancing. 

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