From d3bc1fef9389e409a772ea174a5e41a6f93d9b7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wu Fengguang Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:52:37 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes When dd in 512bytes, generic_perform_write() calls balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() 8 times for the same page, but obviously the page is only dirtied once. Fix it by accounting tsk->nr_dirtied and bdp_ratelimits at page dirty time. Acked-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang --- Reading git-format-patch failed