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>
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Wu Fengguang 2010-08-11 14:17:39 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e50e37201a
commit 16c4042f08
4 changed files with 44 additions and 41 deletions

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@ -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,