writeback: avoid unnecessary determine_dirtyable_memory call

I think determine_dirtyable_memory() is a rather costly function since it
need many atomic reads for gathering zone/global page state.  But when we
use vm_dirty_bytes && dirty_background_bytes, we don't need that costly
calculation.

This patch eliminates such unnecessary overhead.

NOTE : newly added if condition might add overhead in normal path.
       But it should be _really_ small because anyway we need the
       access both vm_dirty_bytes and dirty_background_bytes so it is
       likely to hit the cache.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix used-uninitialised warning]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 28763b8..2cb01f6 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -410,9 +410,12 @@ void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
 {
        unsigned long background;
        unsigned long dirty;
-       unsigned long available_memory = determine_dirtyable_memory();
+       unsigned long uninitialized_var(available_memory);
        struct task_struct *tsk;
 
+       if (!vm_dirty_bytes || !dirty_background_bytes)
+               available_memory = determine_dirtyable_memory();
+
        if (vm_dirty_bytes)
                dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
        else