linux-kernel - [084/200] writeback: disable periodic old data writeback for !dirty_writeback

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Date:	Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:42:54 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: [084/200] writeback: disable periodic old data writeback for !dirty_writeback_centisecs

2.6.34-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>

commit 69b62d01ec44fe0d505d89917392347732135a4d upstream.

Prior to 2.6.32, setting /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs disabled
periodic dirty writeback from kupdate. This got broken and now causes
excessive sys CPU usage if set to zero, as we'll keep beating on
schedule().

Reported-by: Justin Maggard <jmaggard10@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 fs/fs-writeback.c |   14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -852,6 +852,12 @@ static long wb_check_old_data_flush(stru
 	unsigned long expired;
 	long nr_pages;
 
+	/*
+	 * When set to zero, disable periodic writeback
+	 */
+	if (!dirty_writeback_interval)
+		return 0;
+
 	expired = wb->last_old_flush +
 			msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10);
 	if (time_before(jiffies, expired))
@@ -947,8 +953,12 @@ int bdi_writeback_task(struct bdi_writeb
 				break;
 		}
 
-		wait_jiffies = msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10);
-		schedule_timeout_interruptible(wait_jiffies);
+		if (dirty_writeback_interval) {
+			wait_jiffies = msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10);
+			schedule_timeout_interruptible(wait_jiffies);
+		} else
+			schedule();
+
 		try_to_freeze();
 	}
 


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