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authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2009-09-23 14:33:40 +0200
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-09-25 18:08:24 +0200
commitd3ddec7635b6fb37cb49e3553bdeea59642be653 (patch)
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parentwriteback: balance_dirty_pages() shall write more than dirtied pages (diff)
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writeback: stop background writeback when below background threshold
Treat bdi_start_writeback(0) as a special request to do background write, and stop such work when we are below the background dirty threshold. Also simplify the (nr_pages <= 0) checks. Since we already pass in nr_pages=LONG_MAX for WB_SYNC_ALL and background writes, we don't need to worry about it being decreased to zero. Reported-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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