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| author | Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm> | 2008-02-04 22:29:20 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-05 09:44:18 -0800 |
| commit | 195cf453d2c3d789cbe80e3735755f860c2fb222 (patch) | |
| tree | fad48a8167744b6c091c8ca499bc78b859af8957 /include/linux | |
| parent | 3dfa5721f12c3d5a441448086bee156887daa961 (diff) | |
mm/page-writeback: highmem_is_dirtyable option
Add vm.highmem_is_dirtyable toggle
A 32 bit machine with HIGHMEM64 enabled running DCC has an MMAPed file of
approximately 2Gb size which contains a hash format that is written
randomly by the dbclean process. On 2.6.16 this process took a few
minutes. With lowmem only accounting of dirty ratios, this takes about 12
hours of 100% disk IO, all random writes.
Include a toggle in /proc/sys/vm/highmem_is_dirtyable which can be set to 1 to
add the highmem back to the total available memory count.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix the CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y build]
Signed-off-by: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Ethan Solomita <solo@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/writeback.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index c6148bbf125..b2cd826a8c9 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ extern int dirty_background_ratio; extern int vm_dirty_ratio; extern int dirty_writeback_interval; extern int dirty_expire_interval; +extern int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable; extern int block_dump; extern int laptop_mode; |