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| author | Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> | 2009-09-23 14:33:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2009-09-25 18:08:24 +0200 |
| commit | d3ddec7635b6fb37cb49e3553bdeea59642be653 (patch) | |
| tree | 662a1ea9c0eac6aa9bb07d4f67b6aad84709600c /mm | |
| parent | writeback: balance_dirty_pages() shall write more than dirtied pages (diff) | |
| download | linux-d3ddec7635b6fb37cb49e3553bdeea59642be653.tar.xz linux-d3ddec7635b6fb37cb49e3553bdeea59642be653.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index cbd4cba468bd..3c78fc316202 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -593,10 +593,10 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low. */ if ((laptop_mode && pages_written) || - (!laptop_mode && ((nr_writeback = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) - + global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS)) + (!laptop_mode && ((global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) + + global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS)) > background_thresh))) - bdi_start_writeback(bdi, nr_writeback); + bdi_start_writeback(bdi, 0); } void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite) |