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-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c19
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 838a5e31394..81a91e6f1f9 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -355,8 +355,8 @@ get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long *pdirty, long *pbdi_dirty,
*/
static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
{
- long bdi_nr_reclaimable;
- long bdi_nr_writeback;
+ long nr_reclaimable, bdi_nr_reclaimable;
+ long nr_writeback, bdi_nr_writeback;
long background_thresh;
long dirty_thresh;
long bdi_thresh;
@@ -376,11 +376,26 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh,
&bdi_thresh, bdi);
+
+ nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
+ global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
+ nr_writeback = global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
+
bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
+
if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback <= bdi_thresh)
break;
+ /*
+ * Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot
+ * catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts
+ * when the bdi limits are ramping up.
+ */
+ if (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback <
+ (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2)
+ break;
+
if (!bdi->dirty_exceeded)
bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1;