From f6ef943813ac3085ece7252ea101d663581219f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bart Samwel Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:15:48 -0800 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/writeback.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index beaef5c7a0ea..609565961494 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -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; -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151