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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2007-10-17 02:25:50 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-17 11:42:45 -0400
commit3e26c149c358529b1605f8959341d34bc4b880a3 (patch)
tree9d173b1753b86bcf03a8591e2509e3162234447c /include/linux/init_task.h
parent04fbfdc14e5f48463820d6b9807daa5e9c92c51f (diff)
mm: dirty balancing for tasks
Based on ideas of Andrew: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=102912915020543&w=2 Scale the bdi dirty limit inversly with the tasks dirty rate. This makes heavy writers have a lower dirty limit than the occasional writer. Andrea proposed something similar: http://lwn.net/Articles/152277/ The main disadvantage to his patch is that he uses an unrelated quantity to measure time, which leaves him with a workload dependant tunable. Other than that the two approaches appear quite similar. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h
index 513bc3e489f0..3a619f57a2b2 100644
--- a/include/linux/init_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups;
171 [PIDTYPE_PGID] = INIT_PID_LINK(PIDTYPE_PGID), \ 171 [PIDTYPE_PGID] = INIT_PID_LINK(PIDTYPE_PGID), \
172 [PIDTYPE_SID] = INIT_PID_LINK(PIDTYPE_SID), \ 172 [PIDTYPE_SID] = INIT_PID_LINK(PIDTYPE_SID), \
173 }, \ 173 }, \
174 .dirties = INIT_PROP_LOCAL_SINGLE(dirties), \
174 INIT_TRACE_IRQFLAGS \ 175 INIT_TRACE_IRQFLAGS \
175 INIT_LOCKDEP \ 176 INIT_LOCKDEP \
176} 177}