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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-11-06 19:02:23 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-11-06 19:02:23 -0800 |
commit | 208bca0860406d16398145ddd950036a737c3c9d (patch) | |
tree | 7797a16c17d8bd155120126fa7976727fc6de013 /include/linux | |
parent | 6aad3738f6a79fd0ca480eaceefe064cc471f6eb (diff) | |
parent | 0e175a1835ffc979e55787774e58ec79e41957d7 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux
* 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_work
writeback: send work item to queue_io, move_expired_inodes
writeback: trace event balance_dirty_pages
writeback: trace event bdi_dirty_ratelimit
writeback: fix ppc compile warnings on do_div(long long, unsigned long)
writeback: per-bdi background threshold
writeback: dirty position control - bdi reserve area
writeback: control dirty pause time
writeback: limit max dirty pause time
writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages()
writeback: per task dirty rate limit
writeback: stabilize bdi->dirty_ratelimit
writeback: dirty rate control
writeback: add bg_threshold parameter to __bdi_update_bandwidth()
writeback: dirty position control
writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pages
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/backing-dev.h | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/writeback.h | 33 |
3 files changed, 47 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h index 3b2f9cb82986..b1038bd686ac 100644 --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ typedef int (congested_fn)(void *, int); enum bdi_stat_item { BDI_RECLAIMABLE, BDI_WRITEBACK, + BDI_DIRTIED, BDI_WRITTEN, NR_BDI_STAT_ITEMS }; @@ -74,10 +75,20 @@ struct backing_dev_info { struct percpu_counter bdi_stat[NR_BDI_STAT_ITEMS]; unsigned long bw_time_stamp; /* last time write bw is updated */ + unsigned long dirtied_stamp; unsigned long written_stamp; /* pages written at bw_time_stamp */ unsigned long write_bandwidth; /* the estimated write bandwidth */ unsigned long avg_write_bandwidth; /* further smoothed write bw */ + /* + * The base dirty throttle rate, re-calculated on every 200ms. + * All the bdi tasks' dirty rate will be curbed under it. + * @dirty_ratelimit tracks the estimated @balanced_dirty_ratelimit + * in small steps and is much more smooth/stable than the latter. + */ + unsigned long dirty_ratelimit; + unsigned long balanced_dirty_ratelimit; + struct prop_local_percpu completions; int dirty_exceeded; @@ -107,7 +118,8 @@ int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *parent, int bdi_register_dev(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, dev_t dev); void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi); int bdi_setup_and_register(struct backing_dev_info *, char *, unsigned int); -void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, long nr_pages); +void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, long nr_pages, + enum wb_reason reason); void bdi_start_background_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi); int bdi_writeback_thread(void *data); int bdi_has_dirty_io(struct backing_dev_info *bdi); diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index e8acce717d2a..68daf4f27e2c 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1522,6 +1522,13 @@ struct task_struct { int make_it_fail; #endif struct prop_local_single dirties; + /* + * when (nr_dirtied >= nr_dirtied_pause), it's time to call + * balance_dirty_pages() for some dirty throttling pause + */ + int nr_dirtied; + int nr_dirtied_pause; + #ifdef CONFIG_LATENCYTOP int latency_record_count; struct latency_record latency_record[LT_SAVECOUNT]; diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index 2b8963ff0f35..a378c295851f 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -39,6 +39,23 @@ enum writeback_sync_modes { }; /* + * why some writeback work was initiated + */ +enum wb_reason { + WB_REASON_BACKGROUND, + WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES, + WB_REASON_SYNC, + WB_REASON_PERIODIC, + WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER, + WB_REASON_FREE_MORE_MEM, + WB_REASON_FS_FREE_SPACE, + WB_REASON_FORKER_THREAD, + + WB_REASON_MAX, +}; +extern const char *wb_reason_name[]; + +/* * A control structure which tells the writeback code what to do. These are * always on the stack, and hence need no locking. They are always initialised * in a manner such that unspecified fields are set to zero. @@ -69,14 +86,17 @@ struct writeback_control { */ struct bdi_writeback; int inode_wait(void *); -void writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *); -void writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr); -int writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle(struct super_block *); -int writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr); +void writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *, enum wb_reason reason); +void writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr, + enum wb_reason reason); +int writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle(struct super_block *, enum wb_reason reason); +int writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr, + enum wb_reason reason); void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *); -long writeback_inodes_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb, long nr_pages); +long writeback_inodes_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb, long nr_pages, + enum wb_reason reason); long wb_do_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait); -void wakeup_flusher_threads(long nr_pages); +void wakeup_flusher_threads(long nr_pages, enum wb_reason reason); /* writeback.h requires fs.h; it, too, is not included from here. */ static inline void wait_on_inode(struct inode *inode) @@ -143,6 +163,7 @@ unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, void __bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned long thresh, + unsigned long bg_thresh, unsigned long dirty, unsigned long bdi_thresh, unsigned long bdi_dirty, |