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writeback: do strict bdi dirty_exceeded
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: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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