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authorDan Williams <[email protected]>2009-09-08 17:55:54 -0700
committerDan Williams <[email protected]>2009-09-08 17:55:54 -0700
commit9134d02bc0af4a8747d448d1f811ec5f8eb96df6 (patch)
tree704c3e5dcc10f360815c4868a74711f82fb62e27 /mm/page-writeback.c
parentbbb20089a3275a19e475dbc21320c3742e3ca423 (diff)
parent80ffb3cceaefa405f2ecd46d66500ed8d53efe74 (diff)
Merge commit 'md/for-linus' into async-tx-next
Conflicts: drivers/md/raid5.c
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 7b0dcea4935b..81627ebcd313 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 */
}