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authorBart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>2006-03-24 03:15:48 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-24 07:33:20 -0800
commitf6ef943813ac3085ece7252ea101d663581219f6 (patch)
treee32d3e57ba6ae235ec1f510b16d77fe9bfa8f96e /kernel/sysctl.c
parent36f574135e36b86bb6ae794bf1d0fce3efa5601f (diff)
downloadlinux-f6ef943813ac3085ece7252ea101d663581219f6.tar.gz
[PATCH] Represent dirty_*_centisecs as jiffies internally
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 32b48e8ee36e..817ba25517eb 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -742,18 +742,18 @@ static ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 	{
 		.ctl_name	= VM_DIRTY_WB_CS,
 		.procname	= "dirty_writeback_centisecs",
-		.data		= &dirty_writeback_centisecs,
-		.maxlen		= sizeof(dirty_writeback_centisecs),
+		.data		= &dirty_writeback_interval,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(dirty_writeback_interval),
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= &dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler,
 	},
 	{
 		.ctl_name	= VM_DIRTY_EXPIRE_CS,
 		.procname	= "dirty_expire_centisecs",
-		.data		= &dirty_expire_centisecs,
-		.maxlen		= sizeof(dirty_expire_centisecs),
+		.data		= &dirty_expire_interval,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(dirty_expire_interval),
 		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,
+		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies,
 	},
 	{
 		.ctl_name	= VM_NR_PDFLUSH_THREADS,