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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/shmem.c | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 8 |
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index d99664e8607e..69b5fbabc8bd 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -44,18 +44,21 @@ static long ratelimit_pages = 32; /* * When balance_dirty_pages decides that the caller needs to perform some * non-background writeback, this is how many pages it will attempt to write. - * It should be somewhat larger than RATELIMIT_PAGES to ensure that reasonably + * It should be somewhat larger than dirtied pages to ensure that reasonably * large amounts of I/O are submitted. */ -static inline long sync_writeback_pages(void) +static inline long sync_writeback_pages(unsigned long dirtied) { - return ratelimit_pages + ratelimit_pages / 2; + if (dirtied < ratelimit_pages) + dirtied = ratelimit_pages; + + return dirtied + dirtied / 2; } /* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */ /* - * Start background writeback (via pdflush) at this percentage + * Start background writeback (via writeback threads) at this percentage */ int dirty_background_ratio = 10; @@ -474,10 +477,11 @@ get_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty, * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force * the caller to perform writeback if the system is over `vm_dirty_ratio'. - * If we're over `background_thresh' then pdflush is woken to perform some - * writeout. + * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to + * perform some writeout. */ -static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping) +static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, + unsigned long write_chunk) { long nr_reclaimable, bdi_nr_reclaimable; long nr_writeback, bdi_nr_writeback; @@ -485,7 +489,6 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping) unsigned long dirty_thresh; unsigned long bdi_thresh; unsigned long pages_written = 0; - unsigned long write_chunk = sync_writeback_pages(); unsigned long pause = 1; struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info; @@ -579,7 +582,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping) bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0; if (writeback_in_progress(bdi)) - return; /* pdflush is already working this queue */ + return; /* * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before @@ -590,10 +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) @@ -640,9 +643,10 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping, p = &__get_cpu_var(bdp_ratelimits); *p += nr_pages_dirtied; if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit)) { + ratelimit = sync_writeback_pages(*p); *p = 0; preempt_enable(); - balance_dirty_pages(mapping); + balance_dirty_pages(mapping, ratelimit); return; } preempt_enable(); diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 98631c26c200..ccf446a9faa1 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -1046,8 +1046,9 @@ static int shmem_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc) * sync from ever calling shmem_writepage; but a stacking filesystem * may use the ->writepage of its underlying filesystem, in which case * tmpfs should write out to swap only in response to memory pressure, - * and not for pdflush or sync. However, in those cases, we do still - * want to check if there's a redundant swappage to be discarded. + * and not for the writeback threads or sync. However, in those cases, + * we do still want to check if there's a redundant swappage to be + * discarded. */ if (wbc->for_reclaim) swap = get_swap_page(); diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 1219ceb8a9b2..64e438898832 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1709,10 +1709,10 @@ static void shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist, * * If the caller is !__GFP_FS then the probability of a failure is reasonably * high - the zone may be full of dirty or under-writeback pages, which this - * caller can't do much about. We kick pdflush and take explicit naps in the - * hope that some of these pages can be written. But if the allocating task - * holds filesystem locks which prevent writeout this might not work, and the - * allocation attempt will fail. + * caller can't do much about. We kick the writeback threads and take explicit + * naps in the hope that some of these pages can be written. But if the + * allocating task holds filesystem locks which prevent writeout this might not + * work, and the allocation attempt will fail. * * returns: 0, if no pages reclaimed * else, the number of pages reclaimed |