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authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2010-08-11 14:17:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-12 08:43:29 -0700
commit16c4042f08919f447d6b2a55679546c9b97c7264 (patch)
tree0248b64d46237854ebe67efe8c742cb5878d8611 /include
parente50e37201ae2e7d6a52e87815759e6481f0bcfb9 (diff)
writeback: avoid unnecessary calculation of bdi dirty thresholds
Split get_dirty_limits() into global_dirty_limits()+bdi_dirty_limit(), so that the latter can be avoided when under global dirty background threshold (which is the normal state for most systems). Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/writeback.h5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index c24eca71e80c..72a5d647a5f2 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -124,8 +124,9 @@ struct ctl_table;
int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
-void get_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty,
- unsigned long *pbdi_dirty, struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
+void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty);
+unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
+ unsigned long dirty);
void page_writeback_init(void);
void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,