On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 04:44:51PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: [..] > * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty > * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force > * the caller to perform writeback if the system is over `vm_dirty_ratio'. > @@ -1008,6 +1005,9 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a > if (clear_dirty_exceeded && bdi->dirty_exceeded) > bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0; > > + current->nr_dirtied = 0; > + current->nr_dirtied_pause = ratelimit_pages(nr_dirty, dirty_thresh); > + > if (writeback_in_progress(bdi)) > return; > > @@ -1034,8 +1034,6 @@ void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page > } > } > > -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, bdp_ratelimits) = 0; > - > /** > * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state > * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied > @@ -1055,30 +1053,17 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr( > { > struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info; > unsigned long ratelimit; > - unsigned long *p; > > if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi)) > return; > > - ratelimit = ratelimit_pages; > - if (mapping->backing_dev_info->dirty_exceeded) > + ratelimit = current->nr_dirtied_pause; > + if (bdi->dirty_exceeded) > ratelimit = 8; Should we make sure that ratelimit is more than 8? It could be that ratelimit is 1 and we set it higher (just reverse of what we wanted?) Thanks Vivek -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html