2006/3/25, [email protected] <[email protected]>:
> From: Bart Samwel <[email protected]>
>
> Make that the internal values for:
>
> /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
> /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs
>
> are stored as jiffies instead of centiseconds. Let the sysctl interface do
> the conversions with full precision using clock_t_to_jiffies, instead of
> doing overflow-sensitive on-the-fly conversions every time the values are
> used.
> diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~represent-dirty__centisecs-as-jiffies-internally mm/page-writeback.c
> --- devel/mm/page-writeback.c~represent-dirty__centisecs-as-jiffies-internally 2006-03-24 03:00:41.000000000 -0800
> +++ devel-akpm/mm/page-writeback.c 2006-03-24 03:00:41.000000000 -0800
> @@ -75,12 +75,12 @@ int vm_dirty_ratio = 40;
> * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks, in centiseconds
> * (hundredths of a second)
Bart,
You forgot to fix the comments. The attached patch fixes them.
--
Coywolf Qi Hunt
Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <[email protected]>
---
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 6dcce3a..75d7f48 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -72,13 +72,12 @@ int dirty_background_ratio = 10;
int vm_dirty_ratio = 40;
/*
- * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks, in centiseconds
- * (hundredths of a second)
+ * The interval between `kupdate'-style writebacks, in jiffies
*/
int dirty_writeback_interval = 5 * HZ;
/*
- * The longest number of centiseconds for which data is allowed to remain dirty
+ * The longest number of jiffies for which data is allowed to remain dirty
*/
int dirty_expire_interval = 30 * HZ;
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