Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 1999 19:39:02 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | let bdflush to sleep |
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In my buffer flushing stuff I made bdflush to wakeup each 5 sec. That's not necessary. bdflush can sleep all the time unless there are too much dirty buffers.
Patch against 2.3.25pre3:
--- 2.3.25pre3-i386/fs/buffer.c.~1~ Mon Nov 1 18:44:06 1999 +++ 2.3.25pre3-i386/fs/buffer.c Mon Nov 1 18:56:58 1999 @@ -2505,10 +2505,10 @@ /* * If there are still a lot of dirty buffers around, * skip the sleep and flush some more. Otherwise, we - * sleep for a while. + * go to sleep waiting a wakeup. */ if (balance_dirty_state(NODEV) < 0) - schedule_timeout(5*HZ); + schedule(); /* Remember to mark us as running otherwise the next schedule will block. */ __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); Andrea
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