Re: [PATCH 06/17] writeback: sync expired inodes first in backgroundwriteback

[Rik van Riel]

On 05/09/2011 12:08 PM, Jan Kara wrote:

>    The age of pages in LRU is not necessarily related with the
> i_dirtied_when time stamp so I'm not sure how much this will help after all

Not necessarily, but given that the inactive file list is a
FIFO list, I expect there will be decent correlation.

> but it makes some sense from the data integrity point of view at least. You
> can add:
> Acked-by: Jan Kara<jack@xxxxxxx>

Good point on the data integrity.

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