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-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 7b0dcea4935b..7687879253b9 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,