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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 57 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 5f378dd5..a3b1409 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -44,18 +44,21 @@ static long ratelimit_pages = 32; /* * When balance_dirty_pages decides that the caller needs to perform some * non-background writeback, this is how many pages it will attempt to write. - * It should be somewhat larger than RATELIMIT_PAGES to ensure that reasonably + * It should be somewhat larger than dirtied pages to ensure that reasonably * large amounts of I/O are submitted. */ -static inline long sync_writeback_pages(void) +static inline long sync_writeback_pages(unsigned long dirtied) { - return ratelimit_pages + ratelimit_pages / 2; + if (dirtied < ratelimit_pages) + dirtied = ratelimit_pages; + + return dirtied + dirtied / 2; } /* The following parameters are exported via /proc/sys/vm */ /* - * Start background writeback (via pdflush) at this percentage + * Start background writeback (via writeback threads) at this percentage */ int dirty_background_ratio = 10; @@ -155,37 +158,37 @@ static void update_completion_period(void) } int dirty_background_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, - struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { int ret; - ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos); + ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); if (ret == 0 && write) dirty_background_bytes = 0; return ret; } int dirty_background_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, - struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { int ret; - ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos); + ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); if (ret == 0 && write) dirty_background_ratio = 0; return ret; } int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, - struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { int old_ratio = vm_dirty_ratio; int ret; - ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos); + ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_ratio != old_ratio) { update_completion_period(); vm_dirty_bytes = 0; @@ -195,13 +198,13 @@ int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, - struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { unsigned long old_bytes = vm_dirty_bytes; int ret; - ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos); + ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_bytes != old_bytes) { update_completion_period(); vm_dirty_ratio = 0; @@ -474,10 +477,11 @@ get_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty, * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty * data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force * the caller to perform writeback if the system is over `vm_dirty_ratio'. - * If we're over `background_thresh' then pdflush is woken to perform some - * writeout. + * If we're over `background_thresh' then the writeback threads are woken to + * perform some writeout. */ -static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping) +static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, + unsigned long write_chunk) { long nr_reclaimable, bdi_nr_reclaimable; long nr_writeback, bdi_nr_writeback; @@ -485,7 +489,6 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping) unsigned long dirty_thresh; unsigned long bdi_thresh; unsigned long pages_written = 0; - unsigned long write_chunk = sync_writeback_pages(); unsigned long pause = 1; struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info; @@ -579,7 +582,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping) bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0; if (writeback_in_progress(bdi)) - return; /* pdflush is already working this queue */ + return; /* * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before @@ -590,10 +593,10 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping) * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low. */ if ((laptop_mode && pages_written) || - (!laptop_mode && ((nr_writeback = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) - + global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS)) + (!laptop_mode && ((global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) + + global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS)) > background_thresh))) - bdi_start_writeback(bdi, nr_writeback); + bdi_start_writeback(bdi, NULL, 0); } void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite) @@ -640,9 +643,10 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping, p = &__get_cpu_var(bdp_ratelimits); *p += nr_pages_dirtied; if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit)) { + ratelimit = sync_writeback_pages(*p); *p = 0; preempt_enable(); - balance_dirty_pages(mapping); + balance_dirty_pages(mapping, ratelimit); return; } preempt_enable(); @@ -686,9 +690,9 @@ static DEFINE_TIMER(laptop_mode_wb_timer, laptop_timer_fn, 0, 0); * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs */ int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write, - struct file *file, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) + void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) { - proc_dointvec(table, write, file, buffer, length, ppos); + proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); return 0; } @@ -1149,6 +1153,13 @@ int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page) EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage); /* + * Dirty a page. + * + * For pages with a mapping this should be done under the page lock + * for the benefit of asynchronous memory errors who prefer a consistent + * dirty state. This rule can be broken in some special cases, + * but should be better not to. + * * If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then * just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads. */ |