Re: [patch] real-time enhanced page allocator and throttling

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 17:09, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > -void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
> > +static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
> 
> Hrm. void? I have this as an int in my tree (test2-mm4), did you change
> something? The function returns stuff.. I made it a 'static int'

ah, I had inserted that patch before the AIO patches, which change that.

> >  		dirty_exceeded = 1;
> > +		if (rt_task(current))
> > +			break;
> 
> OK, this was my other option. I think this is better because, as we have
> both said, it allows us to wake up pdflush.
> 
> Here is what I have right now, now ..

It's testing time.
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