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[PATCH] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited: take nr_pages arg 

Modify balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() so that it can take a
number-of-pages-which-I-just-dirtied argument.  For msync().

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Andrew Morton 2006-03-24 03:18:10 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8a14342683
commit fa5a734e40
2 changed files with 24 additions and 10 deletions
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include/linux/writeback.h
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@ -99,7 +99,15 @@ int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, struct file *,
void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *); void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
void page_writeback_init(void); void page_writeback_init(void);
void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping); void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied);
static inline void
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping)
{
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(mapping, 1);
}
int pdflush_operation(void (*fn)(unsigned long), unsigned long arg0); int pdflush_operation(void (*fn)(unsigned long), unsigned long arg0);
int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc); int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc);
int sync_page_range(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping, int sync_page_range(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping,

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mm/page-writeback.c
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@ -256,8 +256,9 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
} }
/** /**
* balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited - balance dirty memory state * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
* @mapping: address_space which was dirtied * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
* @nr_pages: number of pages which the caller has just dirtied
* *
* Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page * Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
* which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's * which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's
@ -268,10 +269,12 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping)
* limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes * limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
* from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each. * from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
*/ */
void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping) void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
{ {
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, ratelimits) = 0; static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, ratelimits) = 0;
long ratelimit; unsigned long ratelimit;
unsigned long *p;
ratelimit = ratelimit_pages; ratelimit = ratelimit_pages;
if (dirty_exceeded) if (dirty_exceeded)
@ -281,15 +284,18 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping)
* Check the rate limiting. Also, we do not want to throttle real-time * Check the rate limiting. Also, we do not want to throttle real-time
* tasks in balance_dirty_pages(). Period. * tasks in balance_dirty_pages(). Period.
*/ */
if (get_cpu_var(ratelimits)++ >= ratelimit) { preempt_disable();
__get_cpu_var(ratelimits) = 0; p = &__get_cpu_var(ratelimits);
put_cpu_var(ratelimits); *p += nr_pages_dirtied;
if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit)) {
*p = 0;
preempt_enable();
balance_dirty_pages(mapping); balance_dirty_pages(mapping);
return; return;
} }
put_cpu_var(ratelimits); preempt_enable();
} }
EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited); EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
void throttle_vm_writeout(void) void throttle_vm_writeout(void)
{ {