From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
"Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/17] writeback: quit throttling when signal pending
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:33:38 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100914083338.GA20295@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100914172028.C9B2.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 04:23:56PM +0800, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > Subject: writeback: quit throttling when fatal signal pending
> > From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> > Date: Wed Sep 08 17:40:22 CST 2010
> >
> > This allows quick response to Ctrl-C etc. for impatient users.
> >
> > It mainly helps the rare bdi/global dirty exceeded cases.
> > In the normal case of not exceeded, it will quit the loop anyway.
> >
> > CC: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> > ---
> > mm/page-writeback.c | 3 +++
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > --- linux-next.orig/mm/page-writeback.c 2010-09-12 13:25:23.000000000 +0800
> > +++ linux-next/mm/page-writeback.c 2010-09-13 11:39:33.000000000 +0800
> > @@ -552,6 +552,9 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a
> > __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> > io_schedule_timeout(pause);
> >
> > + if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
> > + break;
> > +
> > check_exceeded:
> > /*
> > * The bdi thresh is somehow "soft" limit derived from the
>
> I think we need to change callers (e.g. generic_perform_write) too.
> Otherwise, plenty write + SIGKILL combination easily exceed dirty limit.
> It mean we can see strange OOM.
If it's dangerous, we can do without this patch. The users can still
get quick response in normal case after all.
However, I suspect the process is guaranteed to exit on
fatal_signal_pending, so it won't dirty more pages :)
Thanks,
Fengguang
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-12 15:49 [PATCH 00/17] [RFC] soft and dynamic dirty throttling limits Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 15:49 ` [PATCH 01/17] writeback: remove the internal 5% low bound on dirty_ratio Wu Fengguang
2010-09-13 9:23 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-09-13 9:51 ` Mel Gorman
2010-09-13 9:57 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-13 10:10 ` Mel Gorman
2010-09-12 15:49 ` [PATCH 02/17] writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages() Wu Fengguang
2010-09-13 8:45 ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-13 11:38 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 15:49 ` [PATCH 03/17] writeback: per-task rate limit to balance_dirty_pages() Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 15:49 ` [PATCH 04/17] writeback: quit throttling when bdi dirty/writeback pages go down Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 15:49 ` [PATCH 05/17] writeback: quit throttling when signal pending Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 20:46 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-13 1:55 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-13 3:21 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-13 3:48 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-14 8:23 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-14 8:33 ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2010-09-14 8:44 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-14 9:17 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-14 9:25 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-12 15:49 ` [PATCH 06/17] writeback: move task dirty fraction to balance_dirty_pages() Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 15:49 ` [PATCH 07/17] writeback: add trace event for balance_dirty_pages() Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 15:49 ` [PATCH 08/17] writeback: account per-bdi accumulated written pages Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 15:59 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-14 8:32 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-12 15:49 ` [PATCH 09/17] writeback: bdi write bandwidth estimation Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 15:49 ` [PATCH 10/17] writeback: show bdi write bandwidth in debugfs Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 15:49 ` [PATCH 11/17] writeback: make nr_to_write a per-file limit Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 15:49 ` [PATCH 12/17] writeback: scale IO chunk size up to device bandwidth Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 15:49 ` [PATCH 13/17] writeback: reduce per-bdi dirty threshold ramp up time Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 16:15 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 15:49 ` [PATCH 14/17] vmscan: add scan_control.priority Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 15:50 ` [PATCH 15/17] mm: lower soft dirty limits on memory pressure Wu Fengguang
2010-09-13 9:40 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 15:50 ` [PATCH 16/17] mm: create /vm/dirty_pressure in debugfs Wu Fengguang
2010-09-12 15:50 ` [PATCH 17/17] writeback: consolidate balance_dirty_pages() variable names Wu Fengguang
2010-10-12 14:17 ` [PATCH 00/17] [RFC] soft and dynamic dirty throttling limits Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 3:07 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 3:23 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-13 8:26 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-10-13 9:26 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-01 6:24 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-04 3:41 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-04 12:48 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-04 13:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-05 14:56 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-06 10:42 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-14 13:12 ` Wu Fengguang
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