From 1010bb1b80edb0713415dfe1f97114d320f58c4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fengguang Wu Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:34:08 -0700 Subject: mm: don't set __GFP_WRITE on ramfs/sysfs writes There is not much point in skipping zones during allocation based on the dirty usage which they'll never contribute to. And we'd like to avoid page reclaim waits when writing to ramfs/sysfs etc. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Ying Han Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/filemap.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 2f8165075a5a..e8cf8aefd6f6 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -2341,7 +2341,9 @@ struct page *grab_cache_page_write_begin(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page; gfp_t gfp_notmask = 0; - gfp_mask = mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) | __GFP_WRITE; + gfp_mask = mapping_gfp_mask(mapping); + if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) + gfp_mask |= __GFP_WRITE; if (flags & AOP_FLAG_NOFS) gfp_notmask = __GFP_FS; repeat: -- cgit v1.2.3