From 82791940545be38810dfd5e03ee701e749f04aab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wu Fengguang Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 21:26:01 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] writeback: do strict bdi dirty_exceeded This helps to reduce dirty throttling polls and hence CPU overheads. bdi->dirty_exceeded typically only helps when suddenly starting 100+ dd's on a disk, in which case the dd's may need to poll balance_dirty_pages() earlier than tsk->nr_dirtied_pause. CC: Jan Kara CC: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang --- Reading git-format-patch failed