xfs: Don't wake the aild once per second
Now that the AIL push algorithm is traversal safe, we don't need a
watchdog function in the xfsaild to catch pushes that fail to make
progress. Remove the watchdog timeout and make pushes purely driven
by demand. This will remove the once-per-second wakeup that is seen
when the filesystem is idle and make laptop power misers happy.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
index 77414db..9f2e398 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
@@ -877,12 +877,11 @@
{
struct xfs_ail *ailp = data;
xfs_lsn_t last_pushed_lsn = 0;
- long tout = 0;
+ long tout = 0; /* milliseconds */
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
- if (tout)
- schedule_timeout_interruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(tout));
- tout = 1000;
+ schedule_timeout_interruptible(tout ?
+ msecs_to_jiffies(tout) : MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT);
/* swsusp */
try_to_freeze();