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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, 695182@bugs.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAX_PAUSE to be at least 4
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:01:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130123000147.GC7497@quack.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301210307.r0L37YuG018834@como.maths.usyd.edu.au>

On Mon 21-01-13 14:07:34, paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au wrote:
> Ensure MAX_PAUSE is 4 or larger, so limits in
> 	return clamp_val(t, 4, MAX_PAUSE);
> (the only use of it) are not back-to-front.
> 
> (This patch does not solve the PAE OOM issue.)
> 
> Paul Szabo   psz@maths.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
> School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia
  I guess this isn't needed in patch changelog?

  Also clamp_val(t, 4, MAX_PAUSE) doesn't seem to exist anymore?

								Honza
> Reported-by: Paul Szabo <psz@maths.usyd.edu.au>
> Reference: http://bugs.debian.org/695182
> Signed-off-by: Paul Szabo <psz@maths.usyd.edu.au>
> 
> --- mm/page-writeback.c.old	2012-12-06 22:20:40.000000000 +1100
> +++ mm/page-writeback.c	2013-01-21 13:57:05.000000000 +1100
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
>  /*
>   * Sleep at most 200ms at a time in balance_dirty_pages().
>   */
> -#define MAX_PAUSE		max(HZ/5, 1)
> +#define MAX_PAUSE		max(HZ/5, 4)
>  
>  /*
>   * Estimate write bandwidth at 200ms intervals.
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-23  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-21  3:07 [PATCH] MAX_PAUSE to be at least 4 paul.szabo
2013-01-23  0:01 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2013-01-23  0:04 ` Andrew Morton

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