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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 7b0dcea..7687879 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -541,8 +541,11 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping) * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been * written to the server's write cache, but has not yet * been flushed to permanent storage. + * Only move pages to writeback if this bdi is over its + * threshold otherwise wait until the disk writes catch + * up. */ - if (bdi_nr_reclaimable) { + if (bdi_nr_reclaimable > bdi_thresh) { writeback_inodes(&wbc); pages_written += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write; get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, |
