Introduce nr_dirty = NR_FILE_DIRTY + NR_WRITEBACK + NR_UNSTABLE_NFS in order to simplify many tests in the following patches. balance_dirty_pages() will eventually care only about the dirty sums besides nr_writeback. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang --- mm/page-writeback.c | 21 +++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- linux-next.orig/mm/page-writeback.c 2011-06-20 00:16:58.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-next/mm/page-writeback.c 2011-06-20 00:17:06.000000000 +0800 @@ -560,8 +560,9 @@ static void bdi_update_bandwidth(struct static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, unsigned long write_chunk) { - long nr_reclaimable, bdi_nr_reclaimable; - long nr_writeback, bdi_nr_writeback; + unsigned long nr_reclaimable, bdi_nr_reclaimable; + unsigned long nr_dirty; /* = file_dirty + writeback + unstable_nfs */ + unsigned long bdi_dirty; unsigned long background_thresh; unsigned long dirty_thresh; unsigned long bdi_thresh; @@ -574,7 +575,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a for (;;) { nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) + global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS); - nr_writeback = global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK); + nr_dirty = nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK); global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh); @@ -583,8 +584,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a * catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts * when the bdi limits are ramping up. */ - if (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback <= - (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2) + if (nr_dirty <= (background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2) break; bdi_thresh = bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty_thresh); @@ -602,10 +602,12 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a */ if (bdi_thresh < 2*bdi_stat_error(bdi)) { bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE); - bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK); + bdi_dirty = bdi_nr_reclaimable + + bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK); } else { bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE); - bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK); + bdi_dirty = bdi_nr_reclaimable + + bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK); } /* @@ -614,9 +616,8 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a * bdi or process from holding back light ones; The latter is * the last resort safeguard. */ - dirty_exceeded = - (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback > bdi_thresh) - || (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback > dirty_thresh); + dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty > bdi_thresh) || + (nr_dirty > dirty_thresh); if (!dirty_exceeded) break; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/