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Andrew Morton authored
Use the pdflush exclusion infrastructure to ensure that only one pdlfush thread is ever performing writeback against a particular request_queue. This works rather well. It requires a lot of activity against a lot of disks to cause more pdflush threads to start up. Possibly the thread-creation logic is a little weak: it starts more threads when a pdflush thread goes back to sleep. It may be better to start new threads within pdlfush_operation(). All non-request_queue-backed address_spaces share the global default_backing_dev_info structure. So at present only a single pdflush instance will be available for background writeback of *all* NFS filesystems (for example). If there is benefit in concurrent background writeback for multiple NFS mounts then NFS would need to create per-mount backing_dev_info structures and install those into new inode's address_spaces in some manner.
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