From: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: [PATCH] remove static variable mm/page-writeback.c:total_pages
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:23:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1156803802.1196.73.camel@linuxchandra> (raw)
page-writeback.c has a static local variable "total_pages", which
is the total number of pages in the system.
There is a global variable "vm_total_pages", which is the total number
of pages the VM controls.
Both are assigned from the return value of nr_free_pagecache_pages().
This patch removes the local variable and uses the global variable in that
place.
One more issue with the local static variable "total_pages" is that it is
not updated when new pages are hot-added. Since vm_total_pages is updated
when new pages are hot-added, this patch fixes that problem too.
Signed-Off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
--
Index: linux-2.6.17/mm/page-writeback.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ linux-2.6.17/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
*/
static long ratelimit_pages = 32;
-static long total_pages; /* The total number of pages in the machine. */
static int dirty_exceeded __cacheline_aligned_in_smp; /* Dirty mem may be over limit */
/*
@@ -125,7 +124,7 @@ get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long
int unmapped_ratio;
long background;
long dirty;
- unsigned long available_memory = total_pages;
+ unsigned long available_memory = vm_total_pages;
struct task_struct *tsk;
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
@@ -140,7 +139,7 @@ get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long
unmapped_ratio = 100 - ((global_page_state(NR_FILE_MAPPED) +
global_page_state(NR_ANON_PAGES)) * 100) /
- total_pages;
+ vm_total_pages;
dirty_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
if (dirty_ratio > unmapped_ratio / 2)
@@ -493,7 +492,7 @@ void laptop_sync_completion(void)
static void set_ratelimit(void)
{
- ratelimit_pages = total_pages / (num_online_cpus() * 32);
+ ratelimit_pages = vm_total_pages / (num_online_cpus() * 32);
if (ratelimit_pages < 16)
ratelimit_pages = 16;
if (ratelimit_pages * PAGE_CACHE_SIZE > 4096 * 1024)
@@ -522,9 +521,7 @@ void __init page_writeback_init(void)
long buffer_pages = nr_free_buffer_pages();
long correction;
- total_pages = nr_free_pagecache_pages();
-
- correction = (100 * 4 * buffer_pages) / total_pages;
+ correction = (100 * 4 * buffer_pages) / vm_total_pages;
if (correction < 100) {
dirty_background_ratio *= correction;
--
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Chandra Seetharaman | Be careful what you choose....
- sekharan@us.ibm.com | .......you may get it.
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