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Commit 69b62d01 authored by Jens Axboe's avatar Jens Axboe
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writeback: disable periodic old data writeback for !dirty_writeback_centisecs



Prior to 2.6.32, setting /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs disabled
periodic dirty writeback from kupdate. This got broken and now causes
excessive sys CPU usage if set to zero, as we'll keep beating on
schedule().

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: default avatarJustin Maggard <jmaggard10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
parent 2395e463
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