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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 3e4d65445fa7..6fe7d15bd1f7 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ * mm/page-writeback.c * * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds. - * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com> + * Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra * * Contains functions related to writing back dirty pages at the * address_space level. @@ -278,7 +278,12 @@ static unsigned long zone_dirtyable_memory(struct zone *zone) unsigned long nr_pages; nr_pages = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES); - nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, zone->dirty_balance_reserve); + /* + * Pages reserved for the kernel should not be considered + * dirtyable, to prevent a situation where reclaim has to + * clean pages in order to balance the zones. + */ + nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, zone->totalreserve_pages); nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE); nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE); @@ -332,7 +337,12 @@ static unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void) unsigned long x; x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES); - x -= min(x, dirty_balance_reserve); + /* + * Pages reserved for the kernel should not be considered + * dirtyable, to prevent a situation where reclaim has to + * clean pages in order to balance the zones. + */ + x -= min(x, totalreserve_pages); x += global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE); x += global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE); |
