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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 36 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 0b9c5cbe8eba0..c518c845f2025 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -1972,31 +1972,31 @@ bool wb_over_bg_thresh(struct bdi_writeback *wb) int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) { - proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); - return 0; + unsigned int old_interval = dirty_writeback_interval; + int ret; + + ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); + + /* + * Writing 0 to dirty_writeback_interval will disable periodic writeback + * and a different non-zero value will wakeup the writeback threads. + * wb_wakeup_delayed() would be more appropriate, but it's a pain to + * iterate over all bdis and wbs. + * The reason we do this is to make the change take effect immediately. + */ + if (!ret && write && dirty_writeback_interval && + dirty_writeback_interval != old_interval) + wakeup_flusher_threads(WB_REASON_PERIODIC); + + return ret; } #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data) { struct request_queue *q = (struct request_queue *)data; - int nr_pages = global_node_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) + - global_node_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS); - struct bdi_writeback *wb; - /* - * We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty - * threshold - */ - if (!bdi_has_dirty_io(q->backing_dev_info)) - return; - - rcu_read_lock(); - list_for_each_entry_rcu(wb, &q->backing_dev_info->wb_list, bdi_node) - if (wb_has_dirty_io(wb)) - wb_start_writeback(wb, nr_pages, true, - WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER); - rcu_read_unlock(); + wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi(q->backing_dev_info, WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER); } /* |