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This in preparation for the writable mmap patches for fuse. I know it conflicts with writeback-remove-unnecessary-wait-in-throttle_vm_writeout.patch but if this function is to be removed, it doesn't make much sense to fix it first ;) --- From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> By relying on the global diry limits, this can cause a deadlock when devices are stacked. If the stacking is done through a fuse filesystem, the __GFP_FS, __GFP_IO tests won't help: the process doing the allocation doesn't have any special flag. So why exactly does this function exist? Direct reclaim does not _increase_ the number of dirty pages in the system, so rate limiting it seems somewhat pointless. There are two cases: 1) File backed pages -> file dirty + writeback count remains constant 2) Anonymous pages -> swap writeback count increases, dirty balancing will hold back file writeback in favor of swap So the real question is: does case 2 need rate limiting, or is it OK to let the device queue fill with swap pages as fast as possible? Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> --- Index: linux/include/linux/writeback.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/include/linux/writeback.h 2007-10-02 16:55:03.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/include/linux/writeback.h 2007-10-04 13:40:33.000000000 +0200 @@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ static inline void inode_sync_wait(struc int wakeup_pdflush(long nr_pages); void laptop_io_completion(void); void laptop_sync_completion(void); -void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask); /* These are exported to sysctl. */ extern int dirty_background_ratio; Index: linux/mm/page-writeback.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/mm/page-writeback.c 2007-10-02 16:55:03.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/mm/page-writeback.c 2007-10-04 13:40:33.000000000 +0200 @@ -497,37 +497,6 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr( } ...
Because balance_dirty_pages() maintains: nr_dirty + nr_unstable + nr_writeback <=20 total_dirty + nr_cpus * ratelimit_pages throttle_vm_writeout() _should_ not deadlock on that, unless you're caught in the error term: nr_cpus * ratelimit_pages.=20 Which can only happen when it is larger than 10% of dirty_thresh. Which is even more unlikely since it doesn't account nr_dirty (as I think it should). As for 2), yes I think having a limit on the total number of pages in flight is a good thing. But that said, there might be better ways to do that.
And it does get caught on that in small memory machines. This deadlock is easily reproducable on a 32MB UML instance. I haven't yet tested with the per-bdi patches, but I don't think they make a I think nr_dirty is totally irrelevant. Since we don't care about Sure, if we do need to globally limit the number of under-writeback pages, then I think we need to do it independently of the dirty accounting. Miklos -
Ah, but its correct to have since we compare against dirty_thresh, which is defined to be a unit of nr_dirty + nr_unstable + nr_writeback. if we for my swapping over network thingies I need to put a bound on the amount of outgoing traffic in flight because that bounds the amount of It need not be global, it could be per BDI as well, but yes.
Yeah, I guess the point of the function was to limit nr_write to I guess you will have some request queue with limited length, no? The main problem seems to be if devices use up all the reserved memory for queuing write requests. Limiting the in-flight pages is a very crude way to solve this, the assumptions are: O: overhead as a fraction of the request size T: total memory R: reserved memory T-R: may be full of anon pages so if (T-R)*O > R we are in trouble. if we limit the writeback memory to L and L*O < R we are OK. But we don't know O (it's device dependent). We can make an estimate calculate L based on that, but that will be a number totally For per-bdi limits we have the queue length. Miklod -
Yeah, I'm guestimating O on a per device basis, but I agree that the
current ratio limiting is quite crude. I'm not at all sorry to see
throttle_vm_writeback() go, I just wanted to make a point that what it
does is not quite without merrit - we agree that it can be done better
Agreed, except for:
static int may_write_to_queue(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
if (current->flags & PF_SWAPWRITE)
return 1;
if (!bdi_write_congested(bdi))
return 1;
if (bdi == current->backing_dev_info)
return 1;
return 0;
}
Which will write to congested queues. Anybody know why?
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commit c4e2d7ddde9693a4c05da7afd485db02c27a7a09
Author: akpm <akpm>
Date: Sun Dec 22 01:07:33 2002 +0000
[PATCH] Give kswapd writeback higher priority than pdflush
The `low latency page reclaim' design works by preventing page
allocators from blocking on request queues (and by preventing them from
blocking against writeback of individual pages, but that is immaterial
here).
This has a problem under some situations. pdflush (or a write(2)
caller) could be saturating the queue with highmem pages. This
prevents anyone from writing back ZONE_NORMAL pages. We end up doing
enormous amounts of scenning.
A test case is to mmap(MAP_SHARED) almost all of a 4G machine's memory,
then kill the mmapping applications. The machine instantly goes from
0% of memory dirty to 95% or more. pdflush kicks in and starts writing
the least-recently-dirtied pages, which are all highmem. The queue is
congested so nobody will write back ZONE_NORMAL pages. kswapd chews
50% of the CPU scanning past dirty ZONE_NORMAL pages and page reclaim
efficiency (pages_reclaimed/pages_scanned) falls to 2%.
So this patch changes the policy for kswapd. kswapd may use all of a
request queue, and is prepared to block on request queues.
What will now happen in the above scenario is:
1: The page alloctor scans some pages, fails to reclaim enough
memory and takes a nap in blk_congetion_wait().
2: kswapd() will scan the ZONE_NORMAL LRU and will start writing
back pages. (These pages will be rotated to the tail of the
inactive list at IO-completion interrupt time).
This writeback will saturate the queue with ZONE_NORMAL pages.
Conveniently, pdflush will avoid the congested queues. So we end up
writing the correct pages.
In this test, kswapd CPU utilisation falls from 50% to 2%, page reclaim
efficiency rises from 2% to 40% and ...with highmem >> normal, and user pages preferring highmem, this will So request queue's have a limit above the congestion level on which they will block? I could do that. -
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:10:10 +0200 I guess first you'd need to be able to reproduce the problem which that patch fixed, then check that it remains fixed. Sigh. That problem was fairly subtle. We could re-break reclaim in this way and not find out about it for six months. There's a lesson here. Several. -
Sorry, I cannot not understand it. We now have balanced aging between zones. So the page allocations are expected to distribute proportionally We may see the same problem and improvement in the absent of 'all writeback goes to one zone' assumption. The problem could be: - dirty_thresh is exceeded, so balance_dirty_pages() starts syncing data and quickly _congests_ the queue; - dirty pages are slowly but continuously turned into clean pages by balance_dirty_pages(), but they still stay in the same place in LRU; - the zones are mostly dirty/writeback pages, kswapd has a hard time finding the randomly distributed clean pages; - kswapd cannot do the writeout because the queue is congested! The improvement could be: - kswapd is now explicitly preferred to do the writeout; - the pages written by kswapd will be rotated and easy for kswapd to reclaim; - it becomes possible for kswapd to wait for the congested queue, instead of doing the vmscan like mad. The congestion wait looks like a pretty natural way to throttle the kswapd. Instead of doing the vmscan at 1000MB/s and actually freeing pages at 60MB/s(about the write throughput), kswapd will be relaxed to do vmscan at maybe 150MB/s. Fengguang -
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:30:28 +0800 Sure, but we don't have one disk queue per disk per zone! The queue is shared by all the zones. So if writeback from one zone has filled the queue up, the kernel can't write back data from another zone. (Well, it can, by blocking in get_request_wait(), but that causes long and Or someone ran fsync(), or pdflush is writing back data because it exceeded Yeah. In 2.4 and early 2.5, page-reclaim (both direct reclaim and kswapd, iirc) would throttle by waiting on writeout of a particular page. This was a poor design, because writeback against a *particular* page can take anywhere from one millisecond to thirty seconds to complete, depending upon where the disk head is and all that stuff. The critical change I made was to switch the throttling algorithm from "wait for one page to get written" to "wait for _any_ page to get written". Becaue reclaim really doesn't care _which_ page got written: we want to wake up and start scanning again when _any_ page got written. That's what congestion_wait() does. It is pretty crude. It could be that writeback completed against pages which aren't in the correct zone, or it could be that some other task went and allocated the just-cleaned pages before this task can get running and reclaim them, or it could be that the just-written-back pages weren't reclaimable after all, etc. It would take a mind-boggling amount of logic and locking to make all this 100% accurate and the need has never been demonstrated. So page reclaim presently should be viewed as a polling algorithm, where the rate of Something like that. The critical numbers to watch are /proc/vmstat's *scan* and *steal*. Look: akpm:/usr/src/25> uptime 10:08:14 up 10 days, 16:46, 15 users, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.04 akpm:/usr/src/25> grep steal /proc/vmstat pgsteal_dma 0 pgsteal_dma32 0 pgsteal_normal 0 pgsteal_high 0 pginodesteal 0 kswapd_steal 1218698 kswapd_inodesteal 266847 akpm:/usr/src/25> grep scan /proc/vmstat ...
Hmm, that's a problem. But I guess when one zone is full, other zones
I guess PF_SWAPWRITE processes still have good probability to stuck in
get_request_wait(). Because balance_dirty_pages() are allowed to
disregard the congestion. It will be exhausting the available request
slots all the time.
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
---
mm/page-writeback.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm2.orig/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm2/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -400,6 +400,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a
.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
.older_than_this = NULL,
.nr_to_write = write_chunk,
+ .nonblocking = 1,
.range_cyclic = 1,
Nice tool!
I've been watching the raw numbers by writing scripts. This one can be
written as:
#!/bin/bash
while true; do
while read a b
do
eval $a=$b
done < /proc/vmstat
uptime=$(</proc/uptime)
scan=$((
pgscan_kswapd_dma +
pgscan_kswapd_dma32 +
pgscan_kswapd_normal +
pgscan_kswapd_high +
pgscan_direct_dma +
pgscan_direct_dma32 +
pgscan_direct_normal +
pgscan_direct_high
))
steal=$((
pgsteal_dma +
pgsteal_dma32 +
pgsteal_normal +
pgsteal_high
))
ratio=$((100*steal/(scan+1)))
echo -e "$uptime\t$ratio%\t$steal\t$scan"
sleep 1;
done
Not surprisingly, I see nice numbers on my desktop:
Thank you for the nice tip :-)
Fengguang
-
Yes. So what is it to be? Is limiting by device queues enough? Or do we need some global limit? If so, the cleanest way I see is to separately account and limit swap-writeback pages, so the global counters don't interfere with the limiting. This shouldn't be hard to do, as we have the per-bdi writeback counting infrastructure already, and also a pseudo bdi for swap in swapper_space.backing_dev_info. Miklos -
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:25:22 +0200
This description of the bug-which-is-being-fixed is nowhere near adequate
enough for a reviewer to understand the problem. This makes it hard to
That's described in the changelog for the patch which added
None of the above.
[PATCH] vm: pageout throttling
With silly pageout testcases it is possible to place huge amounts of memory
under I/O. With a large request queue (CFQ uses 8192 requests) it is
possible to place _all_ memory under I/O at the same time.
This means that all memory is pinned and unreclaimable and the VM gets
upset and goes oom.
The patch limits the amount of memory which is under pageout writeout to be
a little more than the amount of memory at which balance_dirty_pages()
callers will synchronously throttle.
This means that heavy pageout activity can starve heavy writeback activity
completely, but heavy writeback activity will not cause starvation of
pageout. Because we don't want a simple `dd' to be causing excessive
latencies in page reclaim.
afaict that problem is still there. It is possible to get all of
ZONE_NORMAL dirty on a highmem machine. With a large queue (or lots of
queues), vmscan can them place all of ZONE_NORMAL under IO.
It could be that we've fixed this problem via other means in the interrim,
but from a quick peek to seems to me that the scanner will still do a 100%
CPU burn when all of a zone's pages are under writeback.
throttle_vm_writeout() should be a per-zone thing, I guess. Perhaps fixing
that would fix your deadlock. That's doubtful, but I don't know anything
about your deadlock so I cannot say.
-
Ah, OK. No, doing the throttling per-zone won't in itself fix the deadlock. Here's a deadlock example: Total memory = 32M /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio = 10 dirty_threshold = 3M ratelimit_pages = 1M Some program dirties 4M (dirty_threshold + ratelimit_pages) of mmap on a fuse fs. Page balancing is called which turns all these into writeback pages. Then userspace filesystem gets a write request, and tries to allocate memory needed to complete the writeout. That will possibly trigger direct reclaim, and throttle_vm_writeout() will be called. That will block until nr_writeback goes below 3.3M (dirty_threshold + 10%). But since all 4M of writeback is from the fuse fs, that will never happen. Does that explain it better? Miklos -
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:39:16 +0200 yup, thanks. This is a somewhat general problem: a userspace process is in the IO path. Userspace block drivers, for example - pretty much anything which involves kernel->userspace upcalls for storage applications. I solved it once in the past by marking the userspace process as PF_MEMALLOC and I beleive that others have implemented the same hack. I suspect that what we need is a general solution, and that the solution will involve explicitly telling the kernel that this process is one which actually cleans memory and needs special treatment. Because I bet there will be other corner-cases where such a process needs kernel help, and there might be optimisation opportunities as well. Problem is, any such mark-me-as-special syscall would need to be privileged, and FUSE servers presently don't require special perms (do they?) -
No, and that's a rather important feature, that I'd rather not give
up. But with the dirty limiting, the memory cleaning really shouldn't
be a problem, as there is plenty of memory _not_ used for dirty file
data, that the filesystem can use during the writeback.
So the only thing the kernel should be careful about, is not to block
on an allocation if not strictly necessary.
Actually a trivial fix for this problem could be to just tweak the
thresholds, so to make the above scenario impossible. Although I'm
still not convinced, this patch is perfect, because the dirty
threshold can actually change in time...
Index: linux/mm/page-writeback.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/mm/page-writeback.c 2007-10-05 00:31:01.000000000 +0200
+++ linux/mm/page-writeback.c 2007-10-05 00:50:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -515,6 +515,12 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask
for ( ; ; ) {
get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL, NULL);
+ /*
+ * Make sure the theshold is over the hard limit of
+ * dirty_thresh + ratelimit_pages * nr_cpus
+ */
+ dirty_thresh += ratelimit_pages * num_online_cpus();
+
/*
* Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
* allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers
-
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:26:12 +0200 Can fuse do it? Perhaps the fs can diddle the server's task_struct at I don't think I understand that. Sure, it _shouldn't_ be a problem. But it I can probably kind of guess what you're trying to do here. But if ratelimit_pages * num_online_cpus() exceeds the size of the offending zone then things might go bad. -
No, it's futile. What if another process is involved (ssh in case of The problem, I believe is in the memory allocation code, not in fuse. In the example, memory allocation may be blocking indefinitely, because we have 4MB under writeback, even though 28MB can still be I think the admin can do quite a bit of other damage, by setting dirty_ratio too high. Maybe this writeback throttling should just have a fixed limit of 80% ZONE_NORMAL, and limit dirty_ratio to something like 50%. Miklos -
fuse is trying to do something which page reclaim was not designed for. Well yes. But we need to work out how, without re-breaking the thing which Bear in mind that the same problem will occur for the 16MB ZONE_DMA, and we cannot limit the system-wide dirty-memory threshold to 12MB. iow, throttle_vm_writeout() needs to become zone-aware. Then it only throttles when, say, 80% of ZONE_FOO is under writeback. Except I don't think that'll fix the problem 100%: if your fuse kernel component somehow manages to put 80% of ZONE_FOO under writeback (and remmeber this might be only 12MB on a 16GB machine) then we get stuck again - the fuse server process (is that the correct terminology, btw?) ends up waiting upon itself. I'll think about it a bit. -
I'm thinking the really_congested thing will also fix this. By only =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= As it stand 110% of dirty limit can already be larger than say zone_dma (and likely is), so that is not a new bug - and I don't think its the thing Miklos runs into. The problem Miklos is seeing (and I, just in a different form), is that throttle_vm_writeout() gets stuck because balance_dirty_pages() gets called once every ratelimit_pages (per cpu). So we can have nr_cpus * ratelimit_pages extra..... /me thinks ok I confused myself. by calling balance_dirty_pages() once every ratelimit_pages (per cpu) allows for nr_cpus() * ratelimit_pages extra _dirty_ pages. But balance_dirty_pages() will make it: nr_dirty + nr_unstable + nr_writeback < thresh So even if it writes out all of the dirty pages, we still have: nr_unstable + nr_writeback < thresh So at any one time nr_writeback should not exceed thresh. But it does!? So how do we end up with more writeback pages than that? should we teach pdflush about these limits as well?
Ugh. I think we should rather fix vmscan to not spin when all pages of a zone are already under writeout. Which is the _real_ problem, according to Andrew. Miklos -
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 4ef4d22..eff2438 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ static inline void wait_on_inode(struct inode *inode)
int wakeup_pdflush(long nr_pages);
void laptop_io_completion(void);
void laptop_sync_completion(void);
-void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask);
+void throttle_vm_writeout(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask);
=20
/* These are exported to sysctl. */
extern int dirty_background_ratio;
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index eec1481..f949997 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -326,11 +326,8 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address=
_space *mapping,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
=20
-void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
+void throttle_vm_writeout(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
- long background_thresh;
- long dirty_thresh;
-
if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) !=3D (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) {
/*
* The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
@@ -342,17 +339,16 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
}
=20
for ( ; ; ) {
- get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL);
+ unsigned long thresh =3D zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE) +
+ zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE);
=20
- /*
- * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
- * allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers
- */
- dirty_thresh +=3D dirty_thresh / 10; /* wheeee... */
+ /*
+ * wait when 75% of the zone's pages are under writeback
+ */
+ thresh -=3D thresh >> 2;
+ if (zone_page_state(zone, NR_WRITEBACK) < thresh)
+ break;
=20
- if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
- global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <=3D dirty_thresh)
- break;
...I think that's an improvement in all respects. However it still does not generally address the deadlock scenario: if there's a small DMA zone, and fuse manages to put all of those pages under writeout, then there's trouble. But it's not really fuse specific. If it was a normal filesystem that did that, and it needed a GFP_DMA allocation for writeout, it is in trouble also, as that allocation would fail (at least no deadlock). Or is GFP_DMA never used by fs/io writeout paths? Miklos -
And the only way to solve that AFAICS, is to make sure fuse never uses more than e.g. 50% of _any_ zone for page cache. And that may need some tweaking in the allocator... Miklos -
Miklos> And the only way to solve that AFAICS, is to make sure fuse Miklos> never uses more than e.g. 50% of _any_ zone for page cache. Miklos> And that may need some tweaking in the allocator... So what happens if I have three different FUSE mounts, all under heavy write pressure? It's not a FUSE problem, it's a VM problem as far as I can see. All I did was extrapolate from the 50% number (where did that come from?) and triple it to go over 100%, since we obviously shouldn't take 100% of any zone, right? So the real cure is to have some way to rate limit Zone usage, making it harder and harder to allocate in a zone as the zone gets more and more full. But how do you do this in a non-deadlocky way? Buy hey, I'm not that knowledgeable about the VM. -
I agree that its not complete. (hence the lack of sign-off etc.) 'normally' writeback pages just need an interrupt to signal the stuff is written back. ie. the writeback completion path is atomic.=20 [ result of the thinking below -- the above is esp. true for swap pages - so maybe we should ensure that !swap traffic can never exceed this 75% - that way, swap can always us get out of a tight spot ] Maybe we should make that a requirement, although I see how that becomes rather hard for FUSE (which is where Andrews PF_MEMALLOC suggestion comes from - but I really dislike PF_MEMALLOC exposed to userspace). Limiting FUSE to say 50% (suggestion from your other email) sounds like a horrible hack to me. - Need more time to think on this. .. o O [ process of thinking ] While I think, I might as well tell the problem I had with throttle_vm_writeout(), which is nfs unstable pages. Those don't go away by waiting for it - as throttle_vm_writeout() does. So once you have an excess of those, you're stuck as well. In this patch I totally ignored unstable, but I'm not sure that's the proper thing to do, I'd need to figure out what happens to an unstable page when passed into pageout() - or if its passed to pageout at all. If unstable pages would be passed to pageout(), and it would properly convert them to writeback and clean them, then there is nothing wrong. (Trond?)
I don't really understand all that page balancing stuff, but I think this will probably never or very rarely happen, because the allocator will prefer the bigger zones, and the dirty page limiting will not let the bigger zones get too full of dirty pages. And even it can happen, it's not necessarily a fuse-only thing. It makes tons of sense to make sure, that we don't fully dirty _any_ specialized zone. One special zone group are the low-memory pages. And currently balance_dirty_pages() makes sure we don't fill that up with dirty file backed pages. So something like that should make sense for other special zones like DMA as well. I'm not saying it's trivial, or even possible to implement, just thinking... Miklos -
Why would we want to do that? That would be a hell of a lot of work (locking pages, setting flags, unlocking pages, ...) for absolutely no reason. Unstable writes are writes which have been sent to the server, but which haven't been written to disk on the server. A single RPC command is then sent (COMMIT) which basically tells the server to call fsync(). After that is successful, we can free up the pages, but we do that with no extra manipulation of the pages themselves: no page locks, just removal from the NFS private radix tree, and freeing up of the NFS private structures. We only need to touch the pages again in the unlikely case that the COMMIT fails because the server has rebooted. In this case we have to resend the writes, and so the pages are marked as dirty, so we can go through the whole writepages() rigmarole again... So, no. I don't see sending pages through pageout() as being at all helpful. Trond -
Well, the thing is, we throttle pageout in throttle_vm_writeout(). As it stand we can deadlock there because it just waits for the numbers to drop, and unstable pages don't automagically dissapear. Only write_inodes() - normally called from balance_dirty_pages() will call COMMIT. So my thought was that calling pageout() on an unstable page would do the COMMIT - we're low on memory, otherwise we would not be paging, so getting rid of unstable pages seems to make sense to me. -
Why not rather track which mappings have large numbers of outstanding unstable writes at the VM level, and then add some form of callback to allow it to notify the filesystem when it needs to flush them out? Cheers Trond -
BTW: Please note that at least in the case of NFS, you will have to allow for the fact that the filesystem may not be _able_ to cause the numbers to drop. If the server is unavailable, then we're may be stuck in unstable page limbo for quite some time. Trond -
That would be nice, its just that the pageout throttling is not quite Agreed, it would be nice if that is handled is such a manner that it does not take down all other paging. The regular write path that only bothers with balance_dirty_pages() already does this nicely. -
I wonder whether
if (!bdi_nr_writeback)
break;
I guess "many unstable pages" would be better if we are taking this way.
-
I think just adding nr_cpus * ratelimit_pages to the dirth_thresh in throttle_vm_writeout() will also solve the problem
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:32:57 +0200 Agreed, that should fix the main latency issues. -- All Rights Reversed -
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