Re: [PATCH] improve the performance of large sequential write NFSworkloads

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Dec 22 2009 - 07:39:32 EST


On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 13:25 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> I believe that if we had per-bdi dirty_background_ratio and set it low
> for NFS's bdi,

There's two things there I think:
1) bdi_background
2) different background ratios per bdi

1) could be 'trivially' done much like we do bdi_dirty in
get_dirty_limits().

2) I'm not at all convinced we want to go there.

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