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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index a4317da60532..7d9a4ef0a078 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -156,24 +156,6 @@ static unsigned long writeout_period_time = 0; #define VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN (3*HZ) /* - * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout - * thresholds. - * - * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped - * memory around. To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable - * pages. It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and - * performing lots of scanning. - * - * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied. - * - * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather - * excessive. - * - * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted - * clamping level. - */ - -/* * In a memory zone, there is a certain amount of pages we consider * available for the page cache, which is essentially the number of * free and reclaimable pages, minus some zone reserves to protect @@ -1623,7 +1605,7 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping) * 1000+ tasks, all of them start dirtying pages at exactly the same * time, hence all honoured too large initial task->nr_dirtied_pause. */ - p = &__get_cpu_var(bdp_ratelimits); + p = this_cpu_ptr(&bdp_ratelimits); if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit)) *p = 0; else if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit_pages)) { @@ -1635,7 +1617,7 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping) * short-lived tasks (eg. gcc invocations in a kernel build) escaping * the dirty throttling and livelock other long-run dirtiers. */ - p = &__get_cpu_var(dirty_throttle_leaks); + p = this_cpu_ptr(&dirty_throttle_leaks); if (*p > 0 && current->nr_dirtied < ratelimit) { unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied; nr_pages_dirtied = min(*p, ratelimit - current->nr_dirtied); @@ -1682,7 +1664,7 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask) /* * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs */ -int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write, +int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) { proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); |