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authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2011-12-03 21:26:01 -0600
committerWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2011-12-18 14:20:31 +0800
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writeback: do strict bdi dirty_exceeded
This helps to reduce dirty throttling polls and hence CPU overheads. bdi->dirty_exceeded typically only helps when suddenly starting 100+ dd's on a disk, in which case the dd's may need to poll balance_dirty_pages() earlier than tsk->nr_dirtied_pause. CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 422cf4edab4..936dc7b61dc 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
}
- dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty > bdi_thresh) ||
+ dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty > bdi_thresh) &&
(nr_dirty > dirty_thresh);
if (dirty_exceeded && !bdi->dirty_exceeded)
bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1;