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    writeback, cgroup: Adjust WB_FRN_TIME_CUT_DIV to accelerate foreign inode switching · 55a694df
    Tejun Heo authored
    
    
    WB_FRN_TIME_CUT_DIV is used to tell the foreign inode detection logic
    to ignore short writeback rounds to prevent getting confused by a
    burst of short writebacks.  The parameter is currently 2 meaning that
    anything smaller than half of the running average writback duration
    will be ignored.
    
    This is unnecessarily aggressive.  The detection logic uses 16 history
    slots and is already reasonably protected against some short bursts
    confusing it and the current parameter can lead to tens of seconds of
    missed detection depending on the writeback pattern.
    
    Let's change the parameter to 8, so that it only ignores writeback
    with are smaller than 12.5% of the current running average.
    
    v2: Add comment explaining what's going on with the foreign detection
        parameters.
    
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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