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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2006-09-25 23:30:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -0700 |
| commit | edc79b2a46ed854595e40edcf3f8b37f9f14aa3f (patch) | |
| tree | c1120bebede9660ab00f9439aa7a84ab9434ac38 /mm/page-writeback.c | |
| parent | d08b3851da41d0ee60851f2c75b118e1f7a5fc89 (diff) | |
[PATCH] mm: balance dirty pages
Now that we can detect writers of shared mappings, throttle them. Avoids OOM
by surprise.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 1c87430b7a2..b9f4c6f1be8 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -244,6 +244,16 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping) pdflush_operation(background_writeout, 0); } +void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page) +{ + if (set_page_dirty(page)) { + struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page); + + if (mapping) + balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping); + } +} + /** * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied |