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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/18] block: add bdi flag to indicate risk of io queue underrun
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:22:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1315318968.14232.6.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110904020916.070059502@intel.com>

On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 09:53 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> +++ linux-next/mm/page-writeback.c      2011-08-31 14:40:58.000000000 +0800
> @@ -1067,6 +1067,9 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a
>                                      nr_dirty, bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty,
>                                      start_time);
>  
> +               if (unlikely(!dirty_exceeded && bdi_async_underrun(bdi)))
> +                       break;
> +
>                 dirty_ratelimit = bdi->dirty_ratelimit;
>                 pos_ratio = bdi_position_ratio(bdi, dirty_thresh,
>                                                background_thresh, nr_dirty,

So dirty_exceeded looks like:


1109                 dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty > bdi_thresh) ||
1110                                   (nr_dirty > dirty_thresh);

Would it make sense to write it as:

	if (nr_dirty > dirty_thresh || 
	    (nr_dirty > freerun && bdi_dirty > bdi_thresh))
		dirty_exceeded = 1;

So that we don't actually throttle bdi thingies when we're still in the
freerun area?


  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-06 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-04  1:53 [PATCH 00/18] IO-less dirty throttling v11 Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 01/18] writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pages Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 02/18] writeback: dirty position control Wu Fengguang
2011-09-05 15:02   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-06  2:10     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-05 15:05   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-06  2:43     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 18:20   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-09-08  2:53     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-12  5:44   ` Nai Xia
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 03/18] writeback: dirty rate control Wu Fengguang
2011-09-29 11:57   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 04/18] writeback: stabilize bdi->dirty_ratelimit Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 05/18] writeback: per task dirty rate limit Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 15:47   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-06 23:27     ` Jan Kara
2011-09-06 23:34       ` Jan Kara
2011-09-07  7:27       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07  1:04     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07  7:31       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 11:00         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 06/18] writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages() Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 12:13   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07  2:46     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 07/18] writeback: dirty ratelimit - think time compensation Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 08/18] writeback: trace dirty_ratelimit Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 09/18] writeback: trace balance_dirty_pages Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 10/18] writeback: dirty position control - bdi reserve area Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 14:09   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 12:31     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-12 10:19       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-18 14:17         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-18 14:37           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-18 14:47             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-28 14:02               ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-28 14:50                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-29  3:32                   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-29  8:49                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-29 11:05                       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-29 12:15                 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 11/18] block: add bdi flag to indicate risk of io queue underrun Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 14:22   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-09-07  2:37     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07  7:31       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 12/18] writeback: balanced_rate cannot exceed write bandwidth Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 13/18] writeback: limit max dirty pause time Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 14:52   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07  2:35     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-12 10:22       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-18 14:23         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 14/18] writeback: control " Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 15:51   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07  2:02     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-12 10:28       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 15/18] writeback: charge leaked page dirties to active tasks Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 16:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07  9:06     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07  0:17   ` Jan Kara
2011-09-07  9:37     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 16/18] writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes Wu Fengguang
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 17/18] writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty Wu Fengguang
2011-09-06 16:18   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07  0:22     ` Jan Kara
2011-09-07  1:18       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07  6:56       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-07  8:19         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-07 16:42           ` Jan Kara
2011-09-07 16:46             ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-08  8:51               ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-09-04  1:53 ` [PATCH 18/18] btrfs: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 13:32 ` [PATCH 00/18] IO-less dirty throttling v11 Wu Fengguang
2011-09-07 19:14   ` Trond Myklebust
2011-09-28 14:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-29  4:11   ` Wu Fengguang

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