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SubjectRe: splice: move balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() outside of splice actor
On Tue, Jun 12 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 13:31 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > Would you prefer this change, then? I'd prefer keeping the current code,
> > unless it's absolutely critical that we call
> > balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() for each and every page instead of eg
> > every 16 pages here.
>
> For that we should call:
> balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(mapping, nr);
>
> Which is ok, for small nr.

OK, then this should be better:

diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 25ec9c8..ed40967 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -844,6 +883,9 @@ generic_file_splice_write_nolock(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out,
sd.file = out;
ret = __splice_from_pipe(pipe, &sd, pipe_to_file);
if (ret > 0) {
+ unsigned long nr_pages;
+
+ nr_pages = (ret + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
*ppos += ret;

/*
@@ -857,7 +899,7 @@ generic_file_splice_write_nolock(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out,
if (err)
ret = err;
}
- balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
+ balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(mapping, nr_pages);
}

return ret;
@@ -898,6 +940,9 @@ generic_file_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out,

ret = splice_from_pipe(pipe, out, ppos, len, flags, pipe_to_file);
if (ret > 0) {
+ unsigned long nr_pages;
+
+ nr_pages = (ret + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
*ppos += ret;

/*
@@ -913,7 +958,7 @@ generic_file_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out,
if (err)
ret = err;
}
- balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
+ balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(mapping, nr_pages);
}

return ret;
--
Jens Axboe

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