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SubjectRe: [PATCH for linux-next] mm/page-writeback.c: make changes of dirty_writeback_centisecs take effect immediately
On Sat, 14. Oct 16:38, Yafang Shao wrote:
> This patch is the followup of the prvious patch:
> [writeback: schedule periodic writeback with sysctl].
>
> There's another issue to fix.
> For example,
> - When the tunable was set to one hour and is reset to one second, the
> new setting will not take effect for up to one hour.
>
> Kicking the flusher threads immediately fixes it.
>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
> ---
> mm/page-writeback.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
> index 3969e69..768fe4e 100644
> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
> @@ -1978,7 +1978,16 @@ int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
> int ret;
>
> ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
> - if (!ret && !old_interval && dirty_writeback_interval)
> +
> + /*
> + * Writing 0 to dirty_writeback_interval will disable periodic writeback
> + * and a different non-zero value will wakeup the writeback threads.
> + * wb_wakeup_delayed() would be more appropriate, but it's a pain to
> + * iterate over all bdis and wbs.
> + * The reason we do this is to make the change take effect immediately.
> + */
> + if (!ret && write && dirty_writeback_interval &&
> + dirty_writeback_interval != old_interval)
> wakeup_flusher_threads(WB_REASON_PERIODIC);
Is that call right ? The call need two arguments ?
--> wakeup_flusher_threads(0,WB_REASON_PERIODIC);

best regards
Damian

>
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