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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
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Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
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Subject: [PATCH 16/27] writeback: smoothed global/bdi dirty pages
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:45:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110303074950.704987840@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20110303064505.718671603@intel.com

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Maintain a smoothed version of dirty pages for use in the throttle
bandwidth calculations.

default_backing_dev_info.avg_dirty holds the smoothed global dirty
pages.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
---
 include/linux/backing-dev.h |    2 +
 mm/backing-dev.c            |    3 +
 mm/page-writeback.c         |   62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 67 insertions(+)

--- linux-next.orig/mm/page-writeback.c	2011-03-03 14:44:07.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/mm/page-writeback.c	2011-03-03 14:44:10.000000000 +0800
@@ -472,6 +472,64 @@ unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct bac
 	return bdi_dirty;
 }
 
+static void bdi_update_dirty_smooth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
+				    unsigned long dirty)
+{
+	unsigned long avg = bdi->avg_dirty;
+	unsigned long old = bdi->old_dirty;
+
+	if (unlikely(!avg)) {
+		avg = dirty;
+		goto update;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * dirty pages are departing upwards, follow up
+	 */
+	if (avg < old && old <= dirty) {
+		avg += (old - avg) >> 3;
+		goto update;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * dirty pages are departing downwards, follow down
+	 */
+	if (avg > old && old >= dirty) {
+		avg -= (avg - old) >> 3;
+		goto update;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * This can filter out one half unnecessary updates when bdi_dirty is
+	 * fluctuating around the balance point, and is most effective on XFS,
+	 * whose pattern is
+	 *                                                             .
+	 *	[.] dirty	[-] avg                       .       .
+	 *                                                   .       .
+	 *              .         .         .         .     .       .
+	 *      ---------------------------------------    .       .
+	 *            .         .         .         .     .       .
+	 *           .         .         .         .     .       .
+	 *          .         .         .         .     .       .
+	 *         .         .         .         .     .       .
+	 *        .         .         .         .
+	 *       .         .         .         .      (flucuated)
+	 *      .         .         .         .
+	 *     .         .         .         .
+	 *
+	 * @avg will remain flat at the cost of being biased towards high. In
+	 * practice the error tend to be much smaller: thanks to more coarse
+	 * grained fluctuations, @avg becomes the real average number for the
+	 * last two rising lines of @dirty.
+	 */
+	goto out;
+
+update:
+	bdi->avg_dirty = avg;
+out:
+	bdi->old_dirty = dirty;
+}
+
 static void __bdi_update_write_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
 					 unsigned long elapsed,
 					 unsigned long written)
@@ -537,6 +595,10 @@ void bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing
 		goto unlock;
 
 	__bdi_update_write_bandwidth(bdi, elapsed, written);
+	if (thresh) {
+		bdi_update_dirty_smooth(bdi, bdi_dirty);
+		bdi_update_dirty_smooth(&default_backing_dev_info, dirty);
+	}
 
 snapshot:
 	bdi->written_stamp = written;
--- linux-next.orig/include/linux/backing-dev.h	2011-03-03 14:44:07.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/include/linux/backing-dev.h	2011-03-03 14:44:10.000000000 +0800
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ struct backing_dev_info {
 	unsigned long written_stamp;
 	unsigned long write_bandwidth;
 	unsigned long avg_bandwidth;
+	unsigned long avg_dirty;
+	unsigned long old_dirty;
 
 	struct prop_local_percpu completions;
 	int dirty_exceeded;
--- linux-next.orig/mm/backing-dev.c	2011-03-03 14:44:07.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/mm/backing-dev.c	2011-03-03 14:44:10.000000000 +0800
@@ -675,6 +675,9 @@ int bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bd
 	bdi->write_bandwidth = INIT_BW;
 	bdi->avg_bandwidth = INIT_BW;
 
+	bdi->avg_dirty = 0;
+	bdi->old_dirty = 0;
+
 	err = prop_local_init_percpu(&bdi->completions);
 
 	if (err) {


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-03  6:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-03  6:45 [PATCH 00/27] IO-less dirty throttling v6 Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 01/27] writeback: add bdi_dirty_limit() kernel-doc Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 02/27] writeback: avoid duplicate balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() calls Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 03/27] writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fs Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 04/27] writeback: reduce per-bdi dirty threshold ramp up time Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 05/27] btrfs: avoid duplicate balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() calls Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 06/27] btrfs: lower the dirty balance poll interval Wu Fengguang
2011-03-04  6:22   ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-04  7:57     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 07/27] btrfs: wait on too many nr_async_bios Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 08/27] nfs: dirty livelock prevention is now done in VFS Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 09/27] nfs: writeback pages wait queue Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03 16:07   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-04  1:53     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03 16:08   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-04  2:01     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-03-04  9:10       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-04  9:26         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-04 14:38           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-03-04 14:41             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 10/27] nfs: limit the commit size to reduce fluctuations Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 11/27] nfs: limit the commit range Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 12/27] nfs: lower writeback threshold proportionally to dirty threshold Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 13/27] writeback: account per-bdi accumulated written pages Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 14/27] writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pages Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 15/27] writeback: bdi write bandwidth estimation Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 17/27] writeback: smoothed dirty threshold and limit Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 18/27] writeback: enforce 1/4 gap between the dirty/background thresholds Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 19/27] writeback: dirty throttle bandwidth control Wu Fengguang
2011-03-07 21:34   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-03-29 21:08   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 20/27] writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages() Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 21/27] writeback: show bdi write bandwidth in debugfs Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 22/27] writeback: trace dirty_throttle_bandwidth Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 23/27] writeback: trace balance_dirty_pages Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 24/27] writeback: trace global_dirty_state Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 25/27] writeback: make nr_to_write a per-file limit Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 26/27] writeback: scale IO chunk size up to device bandwidth Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03  6:45 ` [PATCH 27/27] writeback: trace writeback_single_inode Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03 20:12 ` [PATCH 00/27] IO-less dirty throttling v6 Vivek Goyal
2011-03-03 20:48   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-04  9:06     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-04 18:12       ` async write IO controllers Wu Fengguang

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