[Devel] [PATCH vz7] mm: Revert accounting for WRITEBACK_TEMP in balance_dirty_pages

Maxim Patlasov mpatlasov at virtuozzo.com
Thu Mar 2 15:20:50 PST 2017


We needn't to account WRITEBACK_TEMP in balance_dirty_pages anymore because
of "strictlimit" feature: fuse marks its bdi with BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT, so
balance_dirty_pages knows that for fuse it should always pay attention to
per-bdi limits and counters.

Kudos to Andrey Ryabinin for pointing out.

https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-60701
Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov at virtuozzo.com>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index fd900c0..fcc0c1b 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1534,8 +1534,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 		 */
 		nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
 					global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
-		nr_dirty = nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) +
-			global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP);
+		nr_dirty = nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
 
 		global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
 



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