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fs: add dirtytime_expire_seconds sysctl 

Add a tuning knob so we can adjust the dirtytime expiration timeout,
which is very useful for testing lazytime.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
wifi-calibration
Theodore Ts'o 2015-03-17 12:23:32 -04:00
parent a2f4870697
commit 1efff914af
3 changed files with 22 additions and 0 deletions
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fs/fs-writeback.c
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@ -1188,6 +1188,17 @@ static int __init start_dirtytime_writeback(void)
}
__initcall(start_dirtytime_writeback);
int dirtytime_interval_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{
int ret;
ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
if (ret == 0 && write)
mod_delayed_work(system_wq, &dirtytime_work, 0);
return ret;
}
static noinline void block_dump___mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode)
{
if (inode->i_ino || strcmp(inode->i_sb->s_id, "bdev")) {

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include/linux/writeback.h
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@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ extern int vm_dirty_ratio;
extern unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes;
extern unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval;
extern unsigned int dirty_expire_interval;
extern unsigned int dirtytime_expire_interval;
extern int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable;
extern int block_dump;
extern int laptop_mode;
@ -146,6 +147,8 @@ extern int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
extern int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
loff_t *ppos);
int dirtytime_interval_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
struct ctl_table;
int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,

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kernel/sysctl.c
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@ -1227,6 +1227,14 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
.extra1 = &zero,
},
{
.procname = "dirtytime_expire_seconds",
.data = &dirtytime_expire_interval,
.maxlen = sizeof(dirty_expire_interval),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = dirtytime_interval_handler,
.extra1 = &zero,
},
{
.procname = "nr_pdflush_threads",
.mode = 0444 /* read-only */,