linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/6] buffer: cleanup free_more

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Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:53:02 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     hannes@...xchg.org, clm@...com, jack@...e.cz,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] buffer: cleanup free_more_memory() flusher wakeup

This whole function is... interesting. Change the wakeup call
to the flusher threads to pass in nr_pages == 0, instead of
some random number of pages. This matches more closely what
similar cases do for memory shortage/reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
---
 fs/buffer.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 170df856bdb9..9471a445e370 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static void free_more_memory(void)
 	struct zoneref *z;
 	int nid;
 
-	wakeup_flusher_threads(1024, WB_REASON_FREE_MORE_MEM);
+	wakeup_flusher_threads(0, WB_REASON_FREE_MORE_MEM);
 	yield();
 
 	for_each_online_node(nid) {
-- 
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