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SubjectRe: [PATCH 05/18] writeback: per task dirty rate limit
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On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 09:53 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> /*
> + * After a task dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr()
> + * will look to see if it needs to start dirty throttling.
> + *
> + * If dirty_poll_interval is too low, big NUMA machines will call the expensive
> + * global_page_state() too often. So scale it near-sqrt to the safety margin
> + * (the number of pages we may dirty without exceeding the dirty limits).
> + */
> +static unsigned long dirty_poll_interval(unsigned long dirty,
> + unsigned long thresh)
> +{
> + if (thresh > dirty)
> + return 1UL << (ilog2(thresh - dirty) >> 1);
> +
> + return 1;
> +}

Where does that sqrt come from?


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