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| author | Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> | 2016-09-01 10:20:33 -0600 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> | 2016-11-08 08:28:55 -0700 |
| commit | b57d74aff9ab92fbfb7c197c384d1adfa2827b2e (patch) | |
| tree | ecb36de5f34865613c9eec3db3c0de034aaf7e33 /mm/page-writeback.c | |
| parent | 8e1de26cd5db192b52819f5ee97bab308964f3ab (diff) | |
| download | lwn-b57d74aff9ab92fbfb7c197c384d1adfa2827b2e.tar.gz lwn-b57d74aff9ab92fbfb7c197c384d1adfa2827b2e.zip | |
writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages()
Note in the bdi_writeback structure whenever a task ends up sleeping
waiting for progress. We can use that information in the lower layers
to increase the priority of writes.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 439cc63ad903..52e2f8e3b472 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -1778,6 +1778,7 @@ pause: pause, start_time); __set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE); + wb->dirty_sleep = now; io_schedule_timeout(pause); current->dirty_paused_when = now + pause; |