From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
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: 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>
Cc: Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 18/27] writeback: enforce 1/4 gap between the dirty/background thresholds
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:45:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110303074950.979428322@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20110303064505.718671603@intel.com
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The change is virtually a no-op for the majority users that use the
default 10/20 background/dirty ratios. For others don't know why they
are setting background ratio close enough to dirty ratio. Someone must
set background ratio equal to dirty ratio, but no one seems to notice or
complain that it's then silently halved under the hood..
The other solution is to return -EIO when setting a too large background
threshold or a too small dirty threshold. However that could possibly
break some disordered usage scenario, eg.
echo 10 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
echo 5 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
The first echo will fail because the background ratio is still 10.
Such order dependent behavior seems disgusting for end users.
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
---
mm/page-writeback.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- linux-next.orig/mm/page-writeback.c 2011-03-02 17:04:16.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/mm/page-writeback.c 2011-03-02 17:06:17.000000000 +0800
@@ -422,8 +422,14 @@ void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *
else
background = (dirty_background_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
- if (background >= dirty)
- background = dirty / 2;
+ /*
+ * Ensure at least 1/4 gap between background and dirty thresholds, so
+ * that when dirty throttling starts at (background + dirty)/2, it's
+ * below or at the entrance of the soft dirty throttle scope.
+ */
+ if (background > dirty - dirty / (DIRTY_SCOPE / 2))
+ background = dirty - dirty / (DIRTY_SCOPE / 2);
+
tsk = current;
if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) {
background += background / 4;
--
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next prev 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 ` [PATCH 16/27] writeback: smoothed global/bdi dirty pages Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03 6:45 ` [PATCH 17/27] writeback: smoothed dirty threshold and limit Wu Fengguang
2011-03-03 6:45 ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
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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