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| author | Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2009-05-16 22:56:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-05-17 16:36:11 -0700 |
| commit | 22ef37eed673587ac984965dc88ba94c68873291 (patch) | |
| tree | 7bc26e056bcd88a0d62bdaab9f0375343844f9ff /mm | |
| parent | cd208bcc7cb0acd851e25c951ec2a9c14b084eab (diff) | |
| download | lwn-22ef37eed673587ac984965dc88ba94c68873291.tar.gz lwn-22ef37eed673587ac984965dc88ba94c68873291.zip | |
page-writeback: fix the calculation of the oldest_jif in wb_kupdate()
wb_kupdate() function has a bug on linux-2.6.30-rc5. This bug causes
generic_sync_sb_inodes() to start to write inodes back much earlier than
our expectations because it miscalculates oldest_jif in wb_kupdate().
This bug was introduced in 704503d836042d4a4c7685b7036e7de0418fbc0f
('mm: fix proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies "breakage"').
Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 30351f0063ac..bb553c3e955d 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -94,12 +94,12 @@ unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes; /* * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks */ -unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * 100; /* sentiseconds */ +unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * 100; /* centiseconds */ /* * The longest time for which data is allowed to remain dirty */ -unsigned int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * 100; /* sentiseconds */ +unsigned int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * 100; /* centiseconds */ /* * Flag that makes the machine dump writes/reads and block dirtyings. @@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ static void wb_kupdate(unsigned long arg) sync_supers(); - oldest_jif = jiffies - msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_expire_interval); + oldest_jif = jiffies - msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_expire_interval * 10); start_jif = jiffies; next_jif = start_jif + msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10); nr_to_write = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) + |