Commit 189d3c4a authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Linus Torvalds

mm: bdi: allow setting a minimum for the bdi dirty limit

Under normal circumstances each device is given a part of the total write-back
cache that relates to its current avg writeout speed in relation to the other
devices.

min_ratio - allows one to assign a minimum portion of the write-back cache to
a particular device.  This is useful in situations where you might want to
provide a minimum QoS.  (One request for this feature came from flash based
storage people who wanted to avoid writing out at all costs - they of course
needed some pdflush hacks as well)

max_ratio - allows one to assign a maximum portion of the dirty limit to a
particular device.  This is useful in situations where you want to avoid one
device taking all or most of the write-back cache.  Eg.  an NFS mount that is
prone to get stuck, or a FUSE mount which you don't trust to play fair.

Add "min_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi.  This indicates the minimum percentage of
the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi.

[mszeredi@suse.cz]

 - fix parsing in min_ratio_store()
 - document new sysfs attribute
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent b6f2fcbc
......@@ -44,3 +44,9 @@ bdi_dirty_kb (read-only)
Current threshold on this BDI for reclaimable + writeback
memory
min_ratio (read-write)
Minimal percentage of global dirty threshold allocated to this
bdi. If the value written to this file would make the the sum
of all min_ratio values exceed 100, then EINVAL is returned.
The default is zero
......@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ struct backing_dev_info {
struct prop_local_percpu completions;
int dirty_exceeded;
unsigned int min_ratio;
struct device *dev;
};
......@@ -137,6 +139,8 @@ static inline unsigned long bdi_stat_error(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
#endif
}
int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio);
/*
* Flags in backing_dev_info::capability
* - The first two flags control whether dirty pages will contribute to the
......
......@@ -55,6 +55,24 @@ static inline unsigned long get_dirty(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int i)
BDI_SHOW(dirty_kb, K(get_dirty(bdi, 1)))
BDI_SHOW(bdi_dirty_kb, K(get_dirty(bdi, 2)))
static ssize_t min_ratio_store(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count)
{
struct backing_dev_info *bdi = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
char *end;
unsigned int ratio;
ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
ratio = simple_strtoul(buf, &end, 10);
if (*buf && (end[0] == '\0' || (end[0] == '\n' && end[1] == '\0'))) {
ret = bdi_set_min_ratio(bdi, ratio);
if (!ret)
ret = count;
}
return ret;
}
BDI_SHOW(min_ratio, bdi->min_ratio)
#define __ATTR_RW(attr) __ATTR(attr, 0644, attr##_show, attr##_store)
static struct device_attribute bdi_dev_attrs[] = {
......@@ -63,6 +81,7 @@ static struct device_attribute bdi_dev_attrs[] = {
__ATTR_RO(writeback_kb),
__ATTR_RO(dirty_kb),
__ATTR_RO(bdi_dirty_kb),
__ATTR_RW(min_ratio),
__ATTR_NULL,
};
......@@ -127,6 +146,8 @@ int bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
bdi->dev = NULL;
bdi->min_ratio = 0;
for (i = 0; i < NR_BDI_STAT_ITEMS; i++) {
err = percpu_counter_init_irq(&bdi->bdi_stat[i], 0);
if (err)
......
......@@ -242,6 +242,29 @@ static void task_dirty_limit(struct task_struct *tsk, long *pdirty)
*pdirty = dirty;
}
/*
*
*/
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(bdi_lock);
static unsigned int bdi_min_ratio;
int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio)
{
int ret = 0;
unsigned long flags;
spin_lock_irqsave(&bdi_lock, flags);
min_ratio -= bdi->min_ratio;
if (bdi_min_ratio + min_ratio < 100) {
bdi_min_ratio += min_ratio;
bdi->min_ratio += min_ratio;
} else
ret = -EINVAL;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bdi_lock, flags);
return ret;
}
/*
* Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
* thresholds.
......@@ -330,7 +353,7 @@ get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long *pdirty, long *pbdi_dirty,
*pdirty = dirty;
if (bdi) {
u64 bdi_dirty = dirty;
u64 bdi_dirty;
long numerator, denominator;
/*
......@@ -338,8 +361,10 @@ get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long *pdirty, long *pbdi_dirty,
*/
bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, &numerator, &denominator);
bdi_dirty = (dirty * (100 - bdi_min_ratio)) / 100;
bdi_dirty *= numerator;
do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator);
bdi_dirty += (dirty * bdi->min_ratio) / 100;
*pbdi_dirty = bdi_dirty;
clip_bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty, pbdi_dirty);
......
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