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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/8] Cpuset aware writeback
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Ethan Solomita wrote:

> Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Ethan Solomita wrote:
> > 
> > >    Hi Christoph -- has anything come of resolving the NFS / OOM concerns
> > > that
> > > Andrew Morton expressed concerning the patch? I'd be happy to see some
> > > progress on getting this patch (i.e. the one you posted on 1/23) through.
> > 
> > Peter Zilkstra addressed the NFS issue. I will submit the patch again as
> > soon as the writeback code stabilizes a bit.
> 
> 	I'm pinging to see if this has gotten anywhere. Are you ready to
> resubmit? Do we have the evidence to convince Andrew that the NFS issues are
> resolved and so this patch won't obscure anything?

The NFS patch went into Linus tree a couple of days ago and I have a new 
version ready with additional support to set per dirty ratios per cpu. 
There is some interest in adding more VM controls to this patch. I hope I 
can post the next rev by tomorrow.