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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-05-18 09:12:45 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-05-18 09:12:51 +0200
commitb286e21868ea1af724a7a4802da2c8e144fa70de (patch)
tree75a3e57a00cf70aab372b5583d2b7bf7f053cbea /mm
parented077b58f6146684069975122b1728a9d248a501 (diff)
parent1406de8e11eb043681297adf86d6892ff8efc27a (diff)
downloadlinux-b286e21868ea1af724a7a4802da2c8e144fa70de.tar.bz2
Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc6' into x86/mm
Merge reason: sync up to -rc6 which has changes to mm/ which we are going to touch in the commits to follow as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/madvise.c8
-rw-r--r--mm/pdflush.c31
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 36d6ea2b6340..b9ce574827c8 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -112,14 +112,6 @@ static long madvise_willneed(struct vm_area_struct * vma,
if (!file)
return -EBADF;
- /*
- * Page cache readahead assumes page cache pages are order-0 which
- * is not the case for hugetlbfs. Do not give a bad return value
- * but ignore the advice.
- */
- if (vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB)
- return 0;
-
if (file->f_mapping->a_ops->get_xip_mem) {
/* no bad return value, but ignore advice */
return 0;
diff --git a/mm/pdflush.c b/mm/pdflush.c
index f2caf96993f8..235ac440c44e 100644
--- a/mm/pdflush.c
+++ b/mm/pdflush.c
@@ -58,14 +58,6 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pdflush_lock);
int nr_pdflush_threads = 0;
/*
- * The max/min number of pdflush threads. R/W by sysctl at
- * /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_max/min
- */
-int nr_pdflush_threads_max __read_mostly = MAX_PDFLUSH_THREADS;
-int nr_pdflush_threads_min __read_mostly = MIN_PDFLUSH_THREADS;
-
-
-/*
* The time at which the pdflush thread pool last went empty
*/
static unsigned long last_empty_jifs;
@@ -76,7 +68,7 @@ static unsigned long last_empty_jifs;
* Thread pool management algorithm:
*
* - The minimum and maximum number of pdflush instances are bound
- * by nr_pdflush_threads_min and nr_pdflush_threads_max.
+ * by MIN_PDFLUSH_THREADS and MAX_PDFLUSH_THREADS.
*
* - If there have been no idle pdflush instances for 1 second, create
* a new one.
@@ -142,13 +134,14 @@ static int __pdflush(struct pdflush_work *my_work)
* To throttle creation, we reset last_empty_jifs.
*/
if (time_after(jiffies, last_empty_jifs + 1 * HZ)) {
- if (list_empty(&pdflush_list) &&
- nr_pdflush_threads < nr_pdflush_threads_max) {
- last_empty_jifs = jiffies;
- nr_pdflush_threads++;
- spin_unlock_irq(&pdflush_lock);
- start_one_pdflush_thread();
- spin_lock_irq(&pdflush_lock);
+ if (list_empty(&pdflush_list)) {
+ if (nr_pdflush_threads < MAX_PDFLUSH_THREADS) {
+ last_empty_jifs = jiffies;
+ nr_pdflush_threads++;
+ spin_unlock_irq(&pdflush_lock);
+ start_one_pdflush_thread();
+ spin_lock_irq(&pdflush_lock);
+ }
}
}
@@ -160,7 +153,7 @@ static int __pdflush(struct pdflush_work *my_work)
*/
if (list_empty(&pdflush_list))
continue;
- if (nr_pdflush_threads <= nr_pdflush_threads_min)
+ if (nr_pdflush_threads <= MIN_PDFLUSH_THREADS)
continue;
pdf = list_entry(pdflush_list.prev, struct pdflush_work, list);
if (time_after(jiffies, pdf->when_i_went_to_sleep + 1 * HZ)) {
@@ -266,9 +259,9 @@ static int __init pdflush_init(void)
* Pre-set nr_pdflush_threads... If we fail to create,
* the count will be decremented.
*/
- nr_pdflush_threads = nr_pdflush_threads_min;
+ nr_pdflush_threads = MIN_PDFLUSH_THREADS;
- for (i = 0; i < nr_pdflush_threads_min; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < MIN_PDFLUSH_THREADS; i++)
start_one_pdflush_thread();
return 0;
}