[PATCH 4.4 029/146] writeback: use higher precision calculation in domain_dirty_limits()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-07-25T21:05:00Z

From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

commit 62a584fe05eef1f80ed49a286a29328f1a224fb9 upstream.

As vm.dirty_[background_]bytes can't be applied verbatim to multiple
cgroup writeback domains, they get converted to percentages in
domain_dirty_limits() and applied the same way as
vm.dirty_[background]ratio. However, if the specified bytes is lower
than 1% of available memory, the calculated ratios become zero and the
writeback domain gets throttled constantly.

Fix it by using per-PAGE_SIZE instead of percentage for ratio
calculations. Also, the updated DIV_ROUND_UP() usages now should
yield 1/4096 (0.0244%) as the minimum ratio as long as the specified
bytes are above zero.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Miao Xie <miaoxie@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/57333E75.3080309@huawei.com
Fixes: 9fc3a43e1757 ("writeback: separate out domain_dirty_limits()")
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Adjusted comment based on Jan's suggestion.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

---
mm/page-writeback.c | 21 ++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -359,8 +359,9 @@ static void domain_dirty_limits(struct d
struct dirty_throttle_control *gdtc = mdtc_gdtc(dtc);
unsigned long bytes = vm_dirty_bytes;
unsigned long bg_bytes = dirty_background_bytes;
- unsigned long ratio = vm_dirty_ratio;
- unsigned long bg_ratio = dirty_background_ratio;
+ /* convert ratios to per-PAGE_SIZE for higher precision */
+ unsigned long ratio = (vm_dirty_ratio * PAGE_SIZE) / 100;
+ unsigned long bg_ratio = (dirty_background_ratio * PAGE_SIZE) / 100;
unsigned long thresh;
unsigned long bg_thresh;
struct task_struct *tsk;
@@ -372,26 +373,28 @@ static void domain_dirty_limits(struct d
/*
* The byte settings can't be applied directly to memcg
* domains. Convert them to ratios by scaling against
- * globally available memory.
+ * globally available memory. As the ratios are in
+ * per-PAGE_SIZE, they can be obtained by dividing bytes by
+ * number of pages.
*/
if (bytes)
- ratio = min(DIV_ROUND_UP(bytes, PAGE_SIZE) * 100 /
- global_avail, 100UL);
+ ratio = min(DIV_ROUND_UP(bytes, global_avail),
+ PAGE_SIZE);
if (bg_bytes)
- bg_ratio = min(DIV_ROUND_UP(bg_bytes, PAGE_SIZE) * 100 /
- global_avail, 100UL);
+ bg_ratio = min(DIV_ROUND_UP(bg_bytes, global_avail),
+ PAGE_SIZE);
bytes = bg_bytes = 0;
}

if (bytes)
thresh = DIV_ROUND_UP(bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
else
- thresh = (ratio * available_memory) / 100;
+ thresh = (ratio * available_memory) / PAGE_SIZE;

if (bg_bytes)
bg_thresh = DIV_ROUND_UP(bg_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
else
- bg_thresh = (bg_ratio * available_memory) / 100;
+ bg_thresh = (bg_ratio * available_memory) / PAGE_SIZE;

if (bg_thresh >= thresh)
bg_thresh = thresh / 2;