Hi,
At the moment the synchronous flush trigger for bdflush is hardwired to be
double the asynchronous one. This is a pain for people with lots of RAM.
This patch adds a new variable to the bdflush sysctl so both can be
tuned independently. It also sets the defaults to 40% and 80% for async and
sync flushing. This has worked fine on my test machines (128M RAM and 2G RAM).
btw: does anything still touch these dummy entries?
Cheers,
Anton
diff -urN linux/fs/buffer.c linux_intel/fs/buffer.c
--- linux/fs/buffer.c Thu Dec 7 11:24:40 2000
+++ linux_intel/fs/buffer.c Thu Dec 7 00:08:06 2000
@@ -122,16 +122,17 @@
when trying to refill buffers. */
int interval; /* jiffies delay between kupdate flushes */
int age_buffer; /* Time for normal buffer to age before we flush it */
- int dummy1; /* unused, was age_super */
+ int nfract_sync; /* Percentage of buffer cache dirty to
+ activate bdflush synchronously */
int dummy2; /* unused */
int dummy3; /* unused */
} b_un;
unsigned int data[N_PARAM];
-} bdf_prm = {{40, 500, 64, 256, 5*HZ, 30*HZ, 5*HZ, 1884, 2}};
+} bdf_prm = {{40, 500, 64, 256, 5*HZ, 30*HZ, 80, 0, 0}};
/* These are the min and max parameter values that we will allow to be assigned */
-int bdflush_min[N_PARAM] = { 0, 10, 5, 25, 0, 1*HZ, 1*HZ, 1, 1};
-int bdflush_max[N_PARAM] = {100,50000, 20000, 20000,600*HZ, 6000*HZ, 6000*HZ, 2047, 5};
+int bdflush_min[N_PARAM] = { 0, 10, 5, 25, 0, 1*HZ, 0, 0, 0};
+int bdflush_max[N_PARAM] = {100,50000, 20000, 20000,600*HZ, 6000*HZ, 100, 0, 0};
/*
* Rewrote the wait-routines to use the "new" wait-queue functionality,
@@ -1036,9 +1037,9 @@
dirty = size_buffers_type[BUF_DIRTY] >> PAGE_SHIFT;
tot = nr_free_buffer_pages();
- dirty *= 200;
+ dirty *= 100;
soft_dirty_limit = tot * bdf_prm.b_un.nfract;
- hard_dirty_limit = soft_dirty_limit * 2;
+ hard_dirty_limit = tot * bdf_prm.b_un.nfract_sync;
/* First, check for the "real" dirty limit. */
if (dirty > soft_dirty_limit) {
-
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