[vfs/vfs.all PATCH] writeback: use round_jiffies_relative for dirtytime_work
From: Zhao Mengmeng
Date: Tue Jan 13 2026 - 03:26:52 EST
From: Zhao Mengmeng <zhaomengmeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
The dirtytime_work is a background housekeeping task that flushes dirty
inodes, using round_jiffies_relative() will allow kernel to batch this
work with other aligned system tasks, reducing power consumption.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Mengmeng <zhaomengmeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fs-writeback.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index ea95f527aace..a32d354152d0 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -2504,7 +2504,8 @@ static void wakeup_dirtytime_writeback(struct work_struct *w)
}
rcu_read_unlock();
if (dirtytime_expire_interval)
- schedule_delayed_work(&dirtytime_work, dirtytime_expire_interval * HZ);
+ schedule_delayed_work(&dirtytime_work,
+ round_jiffies_relative(dirtytime_expire_interval * HZ));
}
static int dirtytime_interval_handler(const struct ctl_table *table, int write,
@@ -2536,7 +2537,8 @@ static const struct ctl_table vm_fs_writeback_table[] = {
static int __init start_dirtytime_writeback(void)
{
if (dirtytime_expire_interval)
- schedule_delayed_work(&dirtytime_work, dirtytime_expire_interval * HZ);
+ schedule_delayed_work(&dirtytime_work,
+ round_jiffies_relative(dirtytime_expire_interval * HZ));
register_sysctl_init("vm", vm_fs_writeback_table);
return 0;
}
--
2.43.0