Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2012-11-22

Re: [PATCH 14/14] mm: Account for WRITEBACK_TEMP in balance_dirty_pages

From: Jaegeuk Hanse <hidden>
Date: 2012-11-22 13:27:30
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml

On 11/21/2012 08:01 PM, Maxim Patlasov wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Added linux-mm@ to cc:. The patch can stand on it's own.
quoted
Make balance_dirty_pages start the throttling when the WRITEBACK_TEMP
counter is high enough. This prevents us from having too many dirty
pages on fuse, thus giving the userspace part of it a chance to write
stuff properly.

Note, that the existing balance logic is per-bdi, i.e. if the fuse
user task gets stuck in the function this means, that it either
writes to the mountpoint it serves (but it can deadlock even without
the writeback) or it is writing to some _other_ dirty bdi and in the
latter case someone else will free the memory for it.
Signed-off-by: Maxim V. Patlasov <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <redacted>
---
  mm/page-writeback.c |    3 ++-
  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 830893b..499a606 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1220,7 +1220,8 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
  		 */
  		nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
  					global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
-		nr_dirty = nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
+		nr_dirty = nr_reclaimable + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) +
+			global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP);
  
Could you explain NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP is used for accounting what? And 
when it will increase?
  		global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
  

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