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>
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 4b37f7c..760dc8d 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -852,6 +852,12 @@
unsigned long expired;
long nr_pages;
+ /*
+ * When set to zero, disable periodic writeback
+ */
+ if (!dirty_writeback_interval)
+ return 0;
+
expired = wb->last_old_flush +
msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10);
if (time_before(jiffies, expired))
@@ -947,8 +953,12 @@
break;
}
- wait_jiffies = msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10);
- schedule_timeout_interruptible(wait_jiffies);
+ if (dirty_writeback_interval) {
+ wait_jiffies = msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10);
+ schedule_timeout_interruptible(wait_jiffies);
+ } else
+ schedule();
+
try_to_freeze();
}