[patch 152/262] mm/writeback: throttle based on page writeback instead of congestion

Andrew Morton
2021-11-05T20:42:38Z

From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Subject: mm/writeback: throttle based on page writeback instead of congestion

do_writepages throttles on congestion if the writepages() fails due to a
lack of memory but congestion_wait() is partially broken as the congestion
state is not updated for all BDIs.

This patch stalls waiting for a number of pages to complete writeback that
located on the local node. The main weakness is that there is no
correlation between the location of the inode's pages and locality but
that is still better than congestion_wait.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

mm/page-writeback.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/page-writeback.c~mm-writeback-throttle-based-on-page-writeback-instead-of-congestion
+++ a/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2366,8 +2366,15 @@ int do_writepages(struct address_space *
ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
if ((ret != -ENOMEM) || (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL))
break;
- cond_resched();
- congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
+
+ /*
+ * Lacking an allocation context or the locality or writeback
+ * state of any of the inode's pages, throttle based on
+ * writeback activity on the local node. It's as good a
+ * guess as any.
+ */
+ reclaim_throttle(NODE_DATA(numa_node_id()),
+ VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK, HZ/50);
}
/*
* Usually few pages are written by now from those we've just submitted
_