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writeback: disable periodic old data writeback for !dirty_writeback_centisecs
authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Mon, 17 May 2010 10:51:03 +0000 (12:51 +0200)
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Mon, 17 May 2010 10:51:03 +0000 (12:51 +0200)
commit3ef366bd08c4be1853dfbb2a9646bb1a657df47d
treeda40561f3d87ee1073e92ca925ed3ed36708a1d7tree | snapshot
parent031367d99e5facbe070c13d77d6db26434c852c4commit | diff
writeback: disable periodic old data writeback for !dirty_writeback_centisecs

Prior to 2.6.32, setting /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs disabled
periodic dirty writeback from kupdate. This got broken and now causes
excessive sys CPU usage if set to zero, as we'll keep beating on
schedule().

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Justin Maggard <jmaggard10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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