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-rw-r--r--include/linux/writeback.h1
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c30
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c2
3 files changed, 0 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index fc1e16c25a29..797100e10010 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -319,7 +319,6 @@ void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data);
#else
static inline void laptop_sync_completion(void) { }
#endif
-void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask);
bool node_dirty_ok(struct pglist_data *pgdat);
int wb_domain_init(struct wb_domain *dom, gfp_t gfp);
#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 28d6f36a2d79..5ed3381818ec 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1965,36 +1965,6 @@ bool wb_over_bg_thresh(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
return false;
}
-void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
-{
- unsigned long background_thresh;
- unsigned long dirty_thresh;
-
- for ( ; ; ) {
- global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
- dirty_thresh = hard_dirty_limit(&global_wb_domain, dirty_thresh);
-
- /*
- * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
- * allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers
- */
- dirty_thresh += dirty_thresh / 10; /* wheeee... */
-
- if (global_node_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
- global_node_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
- break;
- congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, 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;
- }
-}
-
/*
* sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
*/
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index f406e6fbaaa5..d3715c1b2e36 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2418,8 +2418,6 @@ static void shrink_node_memcg(struct pglist_data *pgdat, struct mem_cgroup *memc
if (inactive_list_is_low(lruvec, false, sc))
shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, lruvec,
sc, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON);
-
- throttle_vm_writeout(sc->gfp_mask);
}
/* Use reclaim/compaction for costly allocs or under memory pressure */