void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
unsigned long background_thresh;
unsigned long dirty_thresh;
for ( ; ; ) {
global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
/*
* Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
* allocators so they don't get DoS'ed by heavy writers
*/
dirty_thresh += dirty_thresh / 10; /* wheeee... */
if (global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
break;
congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
/*
* The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
* or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here
* waiting for IO to complete.
*/
if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO))
break;
}
}
/*
* After a task dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr()
* will look to see if it needs to start dirty throttling.
*
* If ratelimit_pages is too low then big NUMA machines will call the expensive
* global_page_state() too often. So scale it adaptively to the safety margin
* (the number of pages we may dirty without exceeding the dirty limits).
*/
static unsigned long ratelimit_pages(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
unsigned long background_thresh;
unsigned long dirty_thresh;
unsigned long dirty_pages;
global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
dirty_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) +
global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
if (dirty_pages <= (dirty_thresh + background_thresh) / 2)
goto out;
dirty_thresh = bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty_thresh, dirty_pages);
dirty_pages = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE) +
bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
if (dirty_pages < dirty_thresh)
goto out;
return 1;
out:
return 1 + int_sqrt(dirty_thresh - dirty_pages);
}
static int bdi_debug_stats_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
{
struct backing_dev_info *bdi = m->private;
struct bdi_writeback *wb = &bdi->wb;
unsigned long background_thresh;
unsigned long dirty_thresh;
unsigned long wb_thresh;
unsigned long nr_dirty, nr_io, nr_more_io, nr_dirty_time;
struct inode *inode;
nr_dirty = nr_io = nr_more_io = nr_dirty_time = 0;
spin_lock(&wb->list_lock);
list_for_each_entry(inode, &wb->b_dirty, i_io_list)
nr_dirty++;
list_for_each_entry(inode, &wb->b_io, i_io_list)
nr_io++;
list_for_each_entry(inode, &wb->b_more_io, i_io_list)
nr_more_io++;
list_for_each_entry(inode, &wb->b_dirty_time, i_io_list)
if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME)
nr_dirty_time++;
spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock);
global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
wb_thresh = wb_calc_thresh(wb, dirty_thresh);
#define K(x) ((x) << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10))
seq_printf(m,
"BdiWriteback: %10lu kB\n"
"BdiReclaimable: %10lu kB\n"
"BdiDirtyThresh: %10lu kB\n"
"DirtyThresh: %10lu kB\n"
"BackgroundThresh: %10lu kB\n"
"BdiDirtied: %10lu kB\n"
"BdiWritten: %10lu kB\n"
"BdiWriteBandwidth: %10lu kBps\n"
"b_dirty: %10lu\n"
"b_io: %10lu\n"
"b_more_io: %10lu\n"
"b_dirty_time: %10lu\n"
"bdi_list: %10u\n"
"state: %10lx\n",
(unsigned long) K(wb_stat(wb, WB_WRITEBACK)),
(unsigned long) K(wb_stat(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE)),
K(wb_thresh),
K(dirty_thresh),
K(background_thresh),
(unsigned long) K(wb_stat(wb, WB_DIRTIED)),
(unsigned long) K(wb_stat(wb, WB_WRITTEN)),
(unsigned long) K(wb->write_bandwidth),
nr_dirty,
nr_io,
nr_more_io,
nr_dirty_time,
!list_empty(&bdi->bdi_list), bdi->wb.state);
#undef K
return 0;
}
static int bdi_debug_stats_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
{
struct backing_dev_info *bdi = m->private;
struct bdi_writeback *wb = &bdi->wb;
unsigned long background_thresh;
unsigned long dirty_thresh;
unsigned long bdi_thresh;
unsigned long nr_dirty, nr_io, nr_more_io;
struct inode *inode;
nr_dirty = nr_io = nr_more_io = 0;
spin_lock(&inode_wb_list_lock);
list_for_each_entry(inode, &wb->b_dirty, i_wb_list)
nr_dirty++;
list_for_each_entry(inode, &wb->b_io, i_wb_list)
nr_io++;
list_for_each_entry(inode, &wb->b_more_io, i_wb_list)
nr_more_io++;
spin_unlock(&inode_wb_list_lock);
global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
bdi_thresh = bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty_thresh);
#define K(x) ((x) << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10))
seq_printf(m,
"BdiWriteback: %8lu kB\n"
"BdiReclaimable: %8lu kB\n"
"BdiDirtyThresh: %8lu kB\n"
"DirtyThresh: %8lu kB\n"
"BackgroundThresh: %8lu kB\n"
"b_dirty: %8lu\n"
"b_io: %8lu\n"
"b_more_io: %8lu\n"
"bdi_list: %8u\n"
"state: %8lx\n",
(unsigned long) K(bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK)),
(unsigned long) K(bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE)),
K(bdi_thresh), K(dirty_thresh),
K(background_thresh), nr_dirty, nr_io, nr_more_io,
!list_empty(&bdi->bdi_list), bdi->state);
#undef K
return 0;
}
/*
* 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 the writeback threads are woken to
* perform some writeout.
*/
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;
unsigned long background_thresh;
unsigned long dirty_thresh;
unsigned long bdi_thresh;
unsigned long pages_written = 0;
unsigned long pause = 1;
bool dirty_exceeded = false;
struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
for (;;) {
struct writeback_control wbc = {
.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
.older_than_this = NULL,
.nr_to_write = write_chunk,
.range_cyclic = 1,
};
nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
nr_writeback = global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
/*
* Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot
* catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts
* when the bdi limits are ramping up.
*/
if (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback <=
(background_thresh + dirty_thresh) / 2)
break;
bdi_thresh = bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty_thresh);
bdi_thresh = task_dirty_limit(current, bdi_thresh);
/*
* In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need
* to ensure we accurately count the 'dirty' pages when
* the threshold is low.
*
* Otherwise it would be possible to get thresh+n pages
* reported dirty, even though there are thresh-m pages
* actually dirty; with m+n sitting in the percpu
* deltas.
*/
if (bdi_thresh < 2*bdi_stat_error(bdi)) {
bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
} else {
bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
}
/*
* The bdi thresh is somehow "soft" limit derived from the
* global "hard" limit. The former helps to prevent heavy IO
* bdi or process from holding back light ones; The latter is
* the last resort safeguard.
*/
dirty_exceeded =
(bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback > bdi_thresh)
|| (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback > dirty_thresh);
if (!dirty_exceeded)
break;
if (!bdi->dirty_exceeded)
bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1;
/* Note: nr_reclaimable denotes nr_dirty + nr_unstable.
* Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked
* filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been
* written to the server's write cache, but has not yet
* been flushed to permanent storage.
* Only move pages to writeback if this bdi is over its
* threshold otherwise wait until the disk writes catch
* up.
*/
trace_wbc_balance_dirty_start(&wbc, bdi);
if (bdi_nr_reclaimable > bdi_thresh) {
writeback_inodes_wb(&bdi->wb, &wbc);
pages_written += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write;
trace_wbc_balance_dirty_written(&wbc, bdi);
if (pages_written >= write_chunk)
break; /* We've done our duty */
}
trace_wbc_balance_dirty_wait(&wbc, bdi);
__set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
io_schedule_timeout(pause);
/*
* Increase the delay for each loop, up to our previous
* default of taking a 100ms nap.
*/
pause <<= 1;
if (pause > HZ / 10)
break;
}
if (!dirty_exceeded && bdi->dirty_exceeded)
bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0;
if (writeback_in_progress(bdi))
return;
/*
* In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before
* starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down
* to the lower threshold. So slow writers cause minimal disk activity.
*
* In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower
* background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
*/
if ((laptop_mode && pages_written) ||
(!laptop_mode && (nr_reclaimable > background_thresh)))
bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
}
void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite)
{
if (set_page_dirty(page) || page_mkwrite) {
struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
if (mapping)
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
}
}
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, bdp_ratelimits) = 0;
/**
* balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
* @mapping: address_space which was dirtied
* @nr_pages_dirtied: number of pages which the caller has just dirtied
*
* Processes which are dirtying memory should call in here once for each page
* which was newly dirtied. The function will periodically check the system's
* dirty state and will initiate writeback if needed.
*
* On really big machines, get_writeback_state is expensive, so try to avoid
* calling it too often (ratelimiting). But once we're over the dirty memory
* limit we decrease the ratelimiting by a lot, to prevent individual processes
* from overshooting the limit by (ratelimit_pages) each.
*/
void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
{
unsigned long ratelimit;
unsigned long *p;
ratelimit = ratelimit_pages;
if (mapping->backing_dev_info->dirty_exceeded)
ratelimit = 8;
/*
* Check the rate limiting. Also, we do not want to throttle real-time
* tasks in balance_dirty_pages(). Period.
*/
preempt_disable();
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, ratelimit);
return;
}
preempt_enable();
}
