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>
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