From 3e8a406e1c562eec2fd8b959b75477d5f21dd532 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wu Fengguang Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:32:57 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: lower the dirty balance poll interval Tests show that the original large intervals can easily make the dirty limit exceeded on 100 concurrent dd's. So adapt to as large as the next check point selected by the dirty throttling algorithm. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Chris Mason --- fs/btrfs/file.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c index dafdfa059bf66..52305a885c3fc 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/file.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c @@ -1167,6 +1167,8 @@ static noinline ssize_t __btrfs_buffered_write(struct file *file, nrptrs = min((iov_iter_count(i) + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE / (sizeof(struct page *))); + nrptrs = min(nrptrs, current->nr_dirtied_pause - current->nr_dirtied); + nrptrs = max(nrptrs, 8); pages = kmalloc(nrptrs * sizeof(struct page *), GFP_KERNEL); if (!pages) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.39.5