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[PATCH] Represent dirty_*_centisecs as jiffies internally

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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.

Cons: apparent precision loss if HZ is not a multiple of 100, because of
conversion back and forth.  This is a common problem for all sysctl values
that use proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies.  (There is only one other in-tree
use, in net/core/neighbour.c.)

Signed-off-by: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Bart Samwel
2006-03-24 03:15:48 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 36f574135e
commit f6ef943813
3 changed files with 19 additions and 19 deletions
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@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(void);
/* These are exported to sysctl. */
extern int dirty_background_ratio;
extern int vm_dirty_ratio;
extern int dirty_writeback_centisecs;
extern int dirty_expire_centisecs;
extern int dirty_writeback_interval;
extern int dirty_expire_interval;
extern int block_dump;
extern int laptop_mode;