Re: [PATCH 11/15] writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fs

[Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>]

> @@ -495,6 +490,9 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a
>  	bool dirty_exceeded = false;
>  	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
>  
> +	if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi))
> +		return;
> +
>  	for (;;) {
>  		struct writeback_control wbc = {
>  			.sync_mode	= WB_SYNC_NONE,
> 

Update: it's slightly better to do early return in
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(). This way the tmpfs dirties won't
unnecessarily disturb the per-cpu bdp_ratelimits counters.

Thanks,
Fengguang
---

--- linux-next.orig/mm/page-writeback.c	2011-06-11 17:52:59.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/mm/page-writeback.c	2011-06-11 17:53:53.000000000 +0800
@@ -1098,9 +1098,6 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a
 	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
 	unsigned long start_time = jiffies;
 
-	if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi))
-		return;
-
 	for (;;) {
 		nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
 					global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
@@ -1237,9 +1234,13 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, bdp
 void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
 					unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
 {
+	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
 	unsigned long ratelimit;
 	unsigned long *p;
 
+	if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi))
+		return;
+
 	ratelimit = ratelimit_pages;
 	if (mapping->backing_dev_info->dirty_exceeded)
 		ratelimit = 8;