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| author | Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> | 2010-10-26 14:21:45 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-10-26 16:52:08 -0700 |
| commit | 4cbec4c8b9fda9ec784086fe7f74cd32a8adda95 (patch) | |
| tree | 669c3df27982345b52d0bfca8026e3f275e64a03 /mm/page-writeback.c | |
| parent | 0e093d99763eb4cea09f8ca4f1d01f34e121d10b (diff) | |
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writeback: remove the internal 5% low bound on dirty_ratio
The dirty_ratio was silently limited in global_dirty_limits() to >= 5%.
This is not a user expected behavior. And it's inconsistent with
calc_period_shift(), which uses the plain vm_dirty_ratio value.
Let's remove the internal bound.
At the same time, fix balance_dirty_pages() to work with the
dirty_thresh=0 case. This allows applications to proceed when
dirty+writeback pages are all cleaned.
And ">" fits with the name "exceeded" better than ">=" does. Neil thinks
it is an aesthetic improvement as well as a functional one :)
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Proposed-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 4dd91f7fd39f..b840afa89761 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -415,14 +415,8 @@ void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty) if (vm_dirty_bytes) dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE); - else { - int dirty_ratio; - - dirty_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio; - if (dirty_ratio < 5) - dirty_ratio = 5; - dirty = (dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100; - } + else + dirty = (vm_dirty_ratio * available_memory) / 100; if (dirty_background_bytes) background = DIV_ROUND_UP(dirty_background_bytes, PAGE_SIZE); @@ -510,7 +504,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, * catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts * when the bdi limits are ramping up. */ - if (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback < + if (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback <= (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2) break; @@ -542,8 +536,8 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, * the last resort safeguard. */ dirty_exceeded = - (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback >= bdi_thresh) - || (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback >= dirty_thresh); + (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback > bdi_thresh) + || (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback > dirty_thresh); if (!dirty_exceeded) break; |