Patch "writeback: use higher precision calculation in domain_dirty_limits()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    writeback: use higher precision calculation in domain_dirty_limits()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     writeback-use-higher-precision-calculation-in-domain_dirty_limits.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 62a584fe05eef1f80ed49a286a29328f1a224fb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 14:34:46 -0400
Subject: writeback: use higher precision calculation in domain_dirty_limits()

From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

commit 62a584fe05eef1f80ed49a286a29328f1a224fb9 upstream.

As vm.dirty_[background_]bytes can't be applied verbatim to multiple
cgroup writeback domains, they get converted to percentages in
domain_dirty_limits() and applied the same way as
vm.dirty_[background]ratio.  However, if the specified bytes is lower
than 1% of available memory, the calculated ratios become zero and the
writeback domain gets throttled constantly.

Fix it by using per-PAGE_SIZE instead of percentage for ratio
calculations.  Also, the updated DIV_ROUND_UP() usages now should
yield 1/4096 (0.0244%) as the minimum ratio as long as the specified
bytes are above zero.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Miao Xie <miaoxie@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/57333E75.3080309@huawei.com
Fixes: 9fc3a43e1757 ("writeback: separate out domain_dirty_limits()")
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Adjusted comment based on Jan's suggestion.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

---
 mm/page-writeback.c |   21 ++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -359,8 +359,9 @@ static void domain_dirty_limits(struct d
 	struct dirty_throttle_control *gdtc = mdtc_gdtc(dtc);
 	unsigned long bytes = vm_dirty_bytes;
 	unsigned long bg_bytes = dirty_background_bytes;
-	unsigned long ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
-	unsigned long bg_ratio = dirty_background_ratio;
+	/* convert ratios to per-PAGE_SIZE for higher precision */
+	unsigned long ratio = (vm_dirty_ratio * PAGE_SIZE) / 100;
+	unsigned long bg_ratio = (dirty_background_ratio * PAGE_SIZE) / 100;
 	unsigned long thresh;
 	unsigned long bg_thresh;
 	struct task_struct *tsk;
@@ -372,26 +373,28 @@ static void domain_dirty_limits(struct d
 		/*
 		 * The byte settings can't be applied directly to memcg
 		 * domains.  Convert them to ratios by scaling against
-		 * globally available memory.
+		 * globally available memory.  As the ratios are in
+		 * per-PAGE_SIZE, they can be obtained by dividing bytes by
+		 * number of pages.
 		 */
 		if (bytes)
-			ratio = min(DIV_ROUND_UP(bytes, PAGE_SIZE) * 100 /
-				    global_avail, 100UL);
+			ratio = min(DIV_ROUND_UP(bytes, global_avail),
+				    PAGE_SIZE);
 		if (bg_bytes)
-			bg_ratio = min(DIV_ROUND_UP(bg_bytes, PAGE_SIZE) * 100 /
-				       global_avail, 100UL);
+			bg_ratio = min(DIV_ROUND_UP(bg_bytes, global_avail),
+				       PAGE_SIZE);
 		bytes = bg_bytes = 0;
 	}
 
 	if (bytes)
 		thresh = DIV_ROUND_UP(bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
 	else
-		thresh = (ratio * available_memory) / 100;
+		thresh = (ratio * available_memory) / PAGE_SIZE;
 
 	if (bg_bytes)
 		bg_thresh = DIV_ROUND_UP(bg_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
 	else
-		bg_thresh = (bg_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
+		bg_thresh = (bg_ratio * available_memory) / PAGE_SIZE;
 
 	if (bg_thresh >= thresh)
 		bg_thresh = thresh / 2;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tj@kernel.org are

queue-4.4/writeback-use-higher-precision-calculation-in-domain_dirty_limits.patch