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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 5f378dd5880..cbd4cba468b 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -44,12 +44,15 @@ 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 */ @@ -477,7 +480,8 @@ get_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty, * If we're over `background_thresh' then pdflush is 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; @@ -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(); |