On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Maxim Patlasov <mpatla...@parallels.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> wrote:
[snipped] >> If I'm right in the above, then removing NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP would be a nice >> followup patch. > > I'd rather introduce the notion of trusted fuse filesystem. If system > administrator believe given fuse fs "trusted", it works w/o > strictlimit, but fuse daemon is supposed to notify the kernel > explicitly about threads related to processing writeback. The kernel > would raise a per-task flag for those threads. And, calculating > nr_dirty in balance_dirty_pages, we'd add NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP for all, > excepting tasks with the flag set. This is very simple and will work > perfectly. Yes, doing a trusted mode for fuse is a good idea, I think. And it should have a new filesystem type (can't think of a good name though, "fusetrusted" is a bit too long). Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
