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Wu Fengguang 4cbec4c8b9 writeback: remove the internal 5% low bound on dirty_ratio 
The dirty_ratio was silently limited in global_dirty_limits() to >= 5%.
This is not a user expected behavior.  And it's inconsistent with
calc_period_shift(), which uses the plain vm_dirty_ratio value.

Let's remove the internal bound.

At the same time, fix balance_dirty_pages() to work with the
dirty_thresh=0 case.  This allows applications to proceed when
dirty+writeback pages are all cleaned.

And ">" fits with the name "exceeded" better than ">=" does.  Neil thinks
it is an aesthetic improvement as well as a functional one :)

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Proposed-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:08 -07:00
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9p fs/9p: Don't use dotl version of mknod for dotu inode operations 2010-09-13 08:13:03 -05:00
adfs Merge branch 'vfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:01 -07:00
affs Merge branch 'vfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:01 -07:00
afs writeback: remove nonblocking/encountered_congestion references 2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00
autofs Merge branch 'vfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:01 -07:00
autofs4 Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:56 -07:00
befs
bfs BKL: Remove BKL from BFS 2010-10-04 21:10:35 +02:00
btrfs Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-10-22 17:07:18 -07:00
cachefiles llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
ceph writeback: remove nonblocking/encountered_congestion references 2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00
cifs writeback: remove nonblocking/encountered_congestion references 2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00
coda Coda: replace BKL with mutex 2010-10-25 08:02:40 -07:00
configfs
cramfs cramfs: only unlock new inodes 2010-08-18 01:01:33 -04:00
debugfs llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
devpts
dlm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/dlm 2010-10-22 17:33:16 -07:00
ecryptfs Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-10-24 13:41:39 -07:00
efs
exofs exofs: Remove inode->i_count manipulation in exofs_new_inode 2010-10-25 18:03:07 +02:00
exportfs
ext2 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-10-24 13:41:39 -07:00
ext3 Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-10-22 17:07:18 -07:00
ext4 Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-10-22 17:07:18 -07:00
fat Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-10-22 17:07:18 -07:00
freevxfs BKL: remove BKL from freevxfs 2010-10-21 18:48:09 +02:00
fscache Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks 2010-08-12 09:51:35 -07:00
fuse Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:56 -07:00
gfs2 writeback: remove nonblocking/encountered_congestion references 2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00
hfs Merge branch 'vfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:01 -07:00
hfsplus hfsplus: fix getxattr return value 2010-10-15 05:45:00 -07:00
hostfs hostfs: fix UML crash: remove f_spare from hostfs 2010-10-26 16:52:04 -07:00
hpfs Merge branch 'vfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:01 -07:00
hppfs llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
hugetlbfs Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2010-10-26 10:13:10 -07:00
isofs BKL: Remove BKL from isofs 2010-10-04 21:10:45 +02:00
jbd Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-10-22 17:07:18 -07:00
jbd2 Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-10-22 17:07:18 -07:00
jffs2 BKL: Remove BKL from jffs2 2010-10-04 21:10:50 +02:00
jfs Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-10-24 13:41:39 -07:00
lockd Merge branch 'for-2.6.37' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2010-10-26 09:55:25 -07:00
logfs llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
minix minix: fix regression in minix_mkdir() 2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
ncpfs ncpfs: Lock socket in ncpfs while setting its callbacks 2010-10-05 11:02:14 +02:00
nfs writeback: remove nonblocking/encountered_congestion references 2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00
nfs_common
nfsd Merge branch 'for-2.6.37' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2010-10-26 09:55:25 -07:00
nilfs2 mm: add account_page_writeback() 2010-10-26 16:52:06 -07:00
nls
notify Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:56 -07:00
ntfs BKL: Remove BKL from NTFS 2010-10-04 21:10:41 +02:00
ocfs2 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-10-24 13:41:39 -07:00
omfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bcopeland/omfs 2010-08-10 11:47:36 -07:00
openpromfs
partitions Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-10-25 07:45:10 -07:00
proc oom: fix locking for oom_adj and oom_score_adj 2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00
qnx4 BKL: remove BKL from qnx4 2010-10-21 18:48:04 +02:00
quota Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2010-08-10 11:26:52 -07:00
ramfs check ATTR_SIZE contraints in inode_change_ok 2010-08-09 16:47:39 -04:00
reiserfs writeback: remove nonblocking/encountered_congestion references 2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00
romfs llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
smbfs Merge branch 'vfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:01 -07:00
squashfs Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:56 -07:00
sysfs Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6 2010-10-22 19:36:42 -07:00
sysv fs/sysv/super.c: add support for non-PDP11 v7 filesystems 2010-08-11 08:59:23 -07:00
ubifs Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6 2010-10-22 16:34:03 -07:00
udf Merge branch 'vfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:01 -07:00
ufs Merge branch 'vfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:01 -07:00
xfs writeback: remove nonblocking/encountered_congestion references 2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00
aio.c aio: do not return ERESTARTSYS as a result of AIO 2010-09-22 17:22:39 -07:00
anon_inodes.c
attr.c check ATTR_SIZE contraints in inode_change_ok 2010-08-09 16:47:39 -04:00
bad_inode.c bkl: Remove locked .ioctl file operation 2010-08-14 00:24:24 +02:00
binfmt_aout.c Don't dump task struct in a.out core-dumps 2010-10-14 10:57:40 -07:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
binfmt_elf.c ARM: 6342/1: fix ASLR of PIE executables 2010-10-08 10:02:53 +01:00
binfmt_em86.c
binfmt_flat.c
binfmt_misc.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
binfmt_script.c Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
binfmt_som.c
bio-integrity.c fs/bio-integrity.c: return -ENOMEM on kmalloc failure 2010-08-23 13:36:59 +02:00
bio.c block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request 2010-08-07 18:20:39 +02:00
block_dev.c block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT 2010-09-16 20:52:58 +02:00
buffer.c writeback: remove nonblocking/encountered_congestion references 2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00
char_dev.c Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:56 -07:00
compat_binfmt_elf.c
compat_ioctl.c fix rawctl compat ioctls breakage on amd64 and itanic 2010-10-19 11:29:54 +02:00
compat.c Merge branch 'for-2.6.37' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2010-10-26 09:55:25 -07:00
dcache.c fs: brlock vfsmount_lock 2010-08-18 08:35:48 -04:00
dcookies.c
direct-io.c O_DIRECT: fix the splitting up of contiguous I/O 2010-09-09 18:57:22 -07:00
drop_caches.c simplify checks for I_CLEAR/I_FREEING 2010-08-09 16:47:44 -04:00
eventfd.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
eventpoll.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
exec.c oom: add per-mm oom disable count 2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00
fcntl.c vfs: take O_NONBLOCK out of the O_* uniqueness test 2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
fifo.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
file_table.c fs: scale files_lock 2010-08-18 08:35:48 -04:00
file.c vfs: use kmalloc() to allocate fdmem if possible 2010-08-11 08:59:02 -07:00
filesystems.c
fs_struct.c fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock 2010-08-18 08:35:46 -04:00
fs-writeback.c writeback: remove the internal 5% low bound on dirty_ratio 2010-10-26 16:52:08 -07:00
generic_acl.c vfs: update ctime when changing the file's permission by setfacl 2010-08-18 01:04:22 -04:00
inode.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify 2010-08-10 11:39:13 -07:00
internal.h fs: brlock vfsmount_lock 2010-08-18 08:35:48 -04:00
ioctl.c bkl: Remove locked .ioctl file operation 2010-08-14 00:24:24 +02:00
ioprio.c
Kconfig BKL: introduce CONFIG_BKL. 2010-10-21 15:44:13 +02:00
Kconfig.binfmt
libfs.c libfs: Fix shift bug in generic_check_addressable() 2010-09-10 08:42:48 -07:00
locks.c fs/locks.c: prepare for BKL removal 2010-10-05 11:02:04 +02:00
Makefile nfsd: allow deprecated interface to be compiled out. 2010-09-22 15:33:14 -04:00
mbcache.c mbcache: Limit the maximum number of cache entries 2010-08-18 06:24:41 -04:00
mpage.c
namei.c fs: brlock vfsmount_lock 2010-08-18 08:35:48 -04:00
namespace.c BKL: Remove BKL from do_new_mount() 2010-10-04 21:10:43 +02:00
nfsctl.c
no-block.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
open.c fs: cleanup files_lock locking 2010-08-18 08:35:47 -04:00
pipe.c pipe: fix failure to return error code on ->confirm() 2010-10-21 14:56:33 +02:00
pnode.c fs: brlock vfsmount_lock 2010-08-18 08:35:48 -04:00
pnode.h
posix_acl.c
read_write.c vfs: make no_llseek the default 2010-10-15 15:53:46 +02:00
read_write.h
readdir.c vfs: fix warning: 'dirent' is used uninitialized in this function 2010-08-09 20:45:05 -07:00
select.c
seq_file.c fs/seq_file.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data 2010-09-23 13:28:23 +02:00
signalfd.c Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2010-10-26 10:13:10 -07:00
splice.c splice: fix misuse of SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK 2010-08-07 18:52:56 +02:00
stack.c
stat.c Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const 2010-08-13 16:53:13 -07:00
statfs.c add f_flags to struct statfs(64) 2010-08-09 16:48:44 -04:00
super.c fs: scale files_lock 2010-08-18 08:35:48 -04:00
sync.c get rid of file_fsync() 2010-08-09 16:47:43 -04:00
timerfd.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
utimes.c Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const 2010-08-13 16:53:13 -07:00
xattr_acl.c
xattr.c