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authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2010-09-12 13:34:05 -0600
committerWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2011-07-09 22:09:02 -0700
commit7762741e3af69720186802e945229b6a5afd5c49 (patch)
treee5ca904b7b31154b1a412bcd3a2160f31581bdb7 /mm
parent00821b002df7da867bb2c15b4f83f3706371383f (diff)
writeback: consolidate variable names in balance_dirty_pages()
Introduce nr_dirty = NR_FILE_DIRTY + NR_WRITEBACK + NR_UNSTABLE_NFS in order to simplify many tests in the following patches. balance_dirty_pages() will eventually care only about the dirty sums besides nr_writeback. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c21
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 446bdf7b975b..5f3e1b46ace5 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -565,8 +565,9 @@ static void bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
unsigned long write_chunk)
{
- long nr_reclaimable, bdi_nr_reclaimable;
- long nr_writeback, bdi_nr_writeback;
+ unsigned long nr_reclaimable, bdi_nr_reclaimable;
+ unsigned long nr_dirty; /* = file_dirty + writeback + unstable_nfs */
+ unsigned long bdi_dirty;
unsigned long background_thresh;
unsigned long dirty_thresh;
unsigned long bdi_thresh;
@@ -579,7 +580,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
for (;;) {
nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
- nr_writeback = global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
+ nr_dirty = nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
@@ -588,8 +589,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
* catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts
* when the bdi limits are ramping up.
*/
- if (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback <=
- (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2)
+ if (nr_dirty <= (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2)
break;
bdi_thresh = bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty_thresh);
@@ -607,10 +607,12 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
*/
if (bdi_thresh < 2*bdi_stat_error(bdi)) {
bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
- bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
+ bdi_dirty = bdi_nr_reclaimable +
+ bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
} else {
bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
- bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
+ bdi_dirty = bdi_nr_reclaimable +
+ bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
}
/*
@@ -619,9 +621,8 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
* bdi or process from holding back light ones; The latter is
* the last resort safeguard.
*/
- dirty_exceeded =
- (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback > bdi_thresh)
- || (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback > dirty_thresh);
+ dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty > bdi_thresh) ||
+ (nr_dirty > dirty_thresh);
if (!dirty_exceeded)
break;