From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com>,
Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm: track DONTCACHE dirty pages per bdi_writeback
Date: Fri, 01 May 2026 10:49:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260501-dontcache-v4-1-5d5e6dc71cb3@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260501-dontcache-v4-0-5d5e6dc71cb3@kernel.org>
Add a per-wb WB_DONTCACHE_DIRTY counter that tracks the number of dirty
pages with the dropbehind flag set (i.e., pages dirtied via RWF_DONTCACHE
writes).
Increment the counter alongside WB_RECLAIMABLE in folio_account_dirtied()
when the folio has the dropbehind flag set, and decrement it in
folio_clear_dirty_for_io() and folio_account_cleaned(). Also decrement it
when a non-DONTCACHE lookup clears the dropbehind flag on a dirty folio in
__filemap_get_folio_mpol(), using proper writeback domain locking.
The counter will be used by the writeback flusher to determine how many
pages to write back when expediting writeback for IOCB_DONTCACHE writes,
without flushing the entire BDI's dirty pages.
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h | 1 +
mm/filemap.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
mm/page-writeback.c | 6 ++++++
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
index a06b93446d10..cb660dd37286 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ enum wb_stat_item {
WB_WRITEBACK,
WB_DIRTIED,
WB_WRITTEN,
+ WB_DONTCACHE_DIRTY,
NR_WB_STAT_ITEMS
};
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 4e636647100c..1c9c0d5f495f 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2052,8 +2052,19 @@ struct folio *__filemap_get_folio_mpol(struct address_space *mapping,
if (!folio)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
/* not an uncached lookup, clear uncached if set */
- if (folio_test_dropbehind(folio) && !(fgp_flags & FGP_DONTCACHE))
+ if (folio_test_dropbehind(folio) && !(fgp_flags & FGP_DONTCACHE)) {
+ if (folio_test_dirty(folio)) {
+ struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
+ struct bdi_writeback *wb;
+ struct wb_lock_cookie cookie = {};
+
+ wb = unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(inode, &cookie);
+ wb_stat_mod(wb, WB_DONTCACHE_DIRTY,
+ -folio_nr_pages(folio));
+ unlocked_inode_to_wb_end(inode, &cookie);
+ }
folio_clear_dropbehind(folio);
+ }
return folio;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__filemap_get_folio_mpol);
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 88cd53d4ba09..8e520717d1f6 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2630,6 +2630,8 @@ static void folio_account_dirtied(struct folio *folio,
wb = inode_to_wb(inode);
lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_FILE_DIRTY, nr);
+ if (folio_test_dropbehind(folio))
+ wb_stat_mod(wb, WB_DONTCACHE_DIRTY, nr);
__zone_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING, nr);
__node_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_DIRTIED, nr);
wb_stat_mod(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE, nr);
@@ -2651,6 +2653,8 @@ void folio_account_cleaned(struct folio *folio, struct bdi_writeback *wb)
long nr = folio_nr_pages(folio);
lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_FILE_DIRTY, -nr);
+ if (folio_test_dropbehind(folio))
+ wb_stat_mod(wb, WB_DONTCACHE_DIRTY, -nr);
zone_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING, -nr);
wb_stat_mod(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE, -nr);
task_io_account_cancelled_write(nr * PAGE_SIZE);
@@ -2920,6 +2924,8 @@ bool folio_clear_dirty_for_io(struct folio *folio)
if (folio_test_clear_dirty(folio)) {
long nr = folio_nr_pages(folio);
lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_FILE_DIRTY, -nr);
+ if (folio_test_dropbehind(folio))
+ wb_stat_mod(wb, WB_DONTCACHE_DIRTY, -nr);
zone_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING, -nr);
wb_stat_mod(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE, -nr);
ret = true;
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-01 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-01 9:49 [PATCH v4 0/4] mm: improve write performance with RWF_DONTCACHE Jeff Layton
2026-05-01 9:49 ` Jeff Layton [this message]
2026-05-03 14:37 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] mm: track DONTCACHE dirty pages per bdi_writeback Jan Kara
2026-05-01 9:49 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] mm: kick writeback flusher for IOCB_DONTCACHE with targeted dirty tracking Jeff Layton
2026-05-01 16:44 ` Jens Axboe
2026-05-03 14:45 ` Jan Kara
2026-05-03 18:41 ` Jeff Layton
2026-05-01 9:49 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] testing: add nfsd-io-bench NFS server benchmark suite Jeff Layton
2026-05-01 9:49 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] testing: add dontcache-bench local filesystem " Jeff Layton
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