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Andrew Morton authored
The patch fixes a few problems in the writer throttling code. Mainly in the situation where a single large file is being written out. That file could be parked on sb->locked_inodes due to pdflush writeback, and the writer throttling path coming out of balance_dirty_pages() forgot to look for inodes on ->locked_inodes. The net effect was that the amount of dirty memory was exceeding the limit set in /proc/sys/vm/dirty_async_ratio, possibly to the point where the system gets seriously choked. The patch removes sb->locked_inodes altogether and teaches the throttling code to look for inodes on sb->s_io as well as sb->s_dirty. Also, just leave unwritten dirty pages on mapping->io_pages, and unwritten dirty inodes on sb->s_io. Putting them back onto ->dirty_pages and ->dirty_inodes was fairly pointless, given that both lists need to be looked at.
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