Bug#695182: [PATCH] MAX_PAUSE to be at least 4
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:07:34 +1100
paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au wrote:
> Ensure MAX_PAUSE is 4 or larger, so limits in
> return clamp_val(t, 4, MAX_PAUSE);
> (the only use of it) are not back-to-front.
MAX_PAUSE is not used in this fashion in current kernels.
> (This patch does not solve the PAE OOM issue.)
>
> Paul Szabo psz@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
> School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
>
> Reported-by: Paul Szabo <psz@maths.usyd.edu.au>
> Reference: http://bugs.debian.org/695182
> Signed-off-by: Paul Szabo <psz@maths.usyd.edu.au>
>
> --- mm/page-writeback.c.old 2012-12-06 22:20:40.000000000 +1100
> +++ mm/page-writeback.c 2013-01-21 13:57:05.000000000 +1100
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
> /*
> * Sleep at most 200ms at a time in balance_dirty_pages().
> */
> -#define MAX_PAUSE max(HZ/5, 1)
> +#define MAX_PAUSE max(HZ/5, 4)
>
> /*
> * Estimate write bandwidth at 200ms intervals.
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