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authorChandra Seetharaman2006-09-29 11:01:25 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds2006-09-29 18:18:22 +0200
commit2d1d43f6a43b703587e759145f69467e7c6553a7 (patch)
tree8ceb1c78a54c6f44f177779b2b7bdbbc9e03048a /mm/page-writeback.c
parent[PATCH] remove static variable mm/page-writeback.c:total_pages (diff)
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[PATCH] call mm/page-writeback.c:set_ratelimit() when new pages are hot-added
ratelimit_pages in page-writeback.c is recalculated (in set_ratelimit()) every time a CPU is hot-added/removed. But this value is not recalculated when new pages are hot-added. This patch fixes that problem by calling set_ratelimit() when new pages are hot-added. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index efd2705e4986..488b7088557c 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ void laptop_sync_completion(void)
* will write six megabyte chunks, max.
*/
-static void set_ratelimit(void)
+void writeback_set_ratelimit(void)
{
ratelimit_pages = vm_total_pages / (num_online_cpus() * 32);
if (ratelimit_pages < 16)
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ static void set_ratelimit(void)
static int __cpuinit
ratelimit_handler(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long u, void *v)
{
- set_ratelimit();
+ writeback_set_ratelimit();
return 0;
}
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ void __init page_writeback_init(void)
vm_dirty_ratio = 1;
}
mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + dirty_writeback_interval);
- set_ratelimit();
+ writeback_set_ratelimit();
register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb);
}