joel16/android_kernel_sony_msm8994_rework
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/joel16/android_kernel_sony_msm8994_rework.git synced 2024-12-26 05:45:53 +00:00
Code Issues Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

writeback: remove unnecessary wait in throttle_vm_writeout()

Browse Source 
We don't want to introduce pointless delays in throttle_vm_writeout() when
the writeback limits are not yet exceeded, do we?

Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Fengguang Wu 2007-10-16 23:30:45 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 1c0eeaf569
commit 369f2389e7
1 changed files with 8 additions and 10 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

18
mm/page-writeback.c
View File

@ -502,16 +502,6 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
long background_thresh;
long dirty_thresh;
if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) {
/*
* The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
* or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here
* waiting for IO to complete.
*/
congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
return;
}
for ( ; ; ) {
get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL, NULL);
@ -525,6 +515,14 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
break;
congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
/*
* The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
* or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here
* waiting for IO to complete.
*/
if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO))
break;
}
}