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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 7b0dcea4935..81627ebcd31 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -541,8 +541,11 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping) * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet * been flushed to permanent storage. + * Only move pages to writeback if this bdi is over its + * threshold otherwise wait until the disk writes catch + * up. */ - if (bdi_nr_reclaimable) { + if (bdi_nr_reclaimable > bdi_thresh) { writeback_inodes(&wbc); pages_written += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write; get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, @@ -572,7 +575,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping) if (pages_written >= write_chunk) break; /* We've done our duty */ - congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10); + congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10); } if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback < bdi_thresh && @@ -666,7 +669,7 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask) if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh) break; - congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10); + congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10); /* * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion @@ -712,7 +715,7 @@ static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages) if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0 || wbc.pages_skipped > 0) { /* Wrote less than expected */ if (wbc.encountered_congestion || wbc.more_io) - congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10); + congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10); else break; } @@ -784,7 +787,7 @@ static void wb_kupdate(unsigned long arg) writeback_inodes(&wbc); if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0) { if (wbc.encountered_congestion || wbc.more_io) - congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10); + congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10); else break; /* All the old data is written */ } |