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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 31 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 55c2776ae699..e59c523aed1a 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -1628,6 +1628,19 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct bdi_writeback *wb, } /* + * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold + * before starting background writeout, and then write out all + * the way down to the lower threshold. So slow writers cause + * minimal disk activity. + * + * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower + * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low. + */ + if (!laptop_mode && nr_reclaimable > gdtc->bg_thresh && + !writeback_in_progress(wb)) + wb_start_background_writeback(wb); + + /* * Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot * catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts * when the wb limits are ramping up in case of !strictlimit. @@ -1657,6 +1670,7 @@ free_running: break; } + /* Start writeback even when in laptop mode */ if (unlikely(!writeback_in_progress(wb))) wb_start_background_writeback(wb); @@ -1823,23 +1837,6 @@ pause: if (!dirty_exceeded && wb->dirty_exceeded) wb->dirty_exceeded = 0; - - if (writeback_in_progress(wb)) - return; - - /* - * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before - * starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down - * to the lower threshold. So slow writers cause minimal disk activity. - * - * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower - * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low. - */ - if (laptop_mode) - return; - - if (nr_reclaimable > gdtc->bg_thresh) - wb_start_background_writeback(wb); } static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits); |