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    writeback: do strict bdi dirty_exceeded · 82791940
    Wu Fengguang authored
    This helps to reduce dirty throttling polls and hence CPU overheads.
    
    bdi->dirty_exceeded typically only helps when suddenly starting 100+
    dd's on a disk, in which case the dd's may need to poll
    balance_dirty_pages() earlier than tsk->nr_dirtied_pause.
    
    CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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