mtd: block2mtd: throttle writes by calling balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited.
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:32:15 +0000 (19:32 +1100)
committerArtem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:39:44 +0000 (13:39 +0200)
commit031da73fca29ebba3eea5a512746e01d52e542cd
tree450de5893032902a23a09a7373e24e51cb8297ae
parent6f2a6a52560ad8d85710aabd92b7a3239b3a6b07
mtd: block2mtd: throttle writes by calling balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited.

If you create a block2mtd device that is larger than main memory,
and write to all of it, then lots of pages will be dirtied but
they will never be flushed out as nothing calls any variant of
balance_dirty_pages.

It would be nice to call set_page_dirty_balance(), but that isn't exported,
so just call balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() directly.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c