linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6 -v2] writeback: balance_dirty_pages() shall write more than dirtied pages

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Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:58:07 +0800
From:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6 -v2] writeback: balance_dirty_pages() shall write
	more than dirtied pages

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:56:00PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> -static inline long sync_writeback_pages(void)
> +static inline long sync_writeback_pages(unsigned long dirtied)
>  {
> -	return ratelimit_pages + ratelimit_pages / 2;
> +	if (dirtied < ratelimit_pages)
> +		dirtied = ratelimit_pages;

Just added the above checks. Now balance_dirty_pages() for XFS 
works in a much larger 1536 chunk size :)

[   40.374081] redirty_tail() +516: inode=131
[   40.374951] mm/page-writeback.c +543 balance_dirty_pages(): comm=cp pid=3296 n=1536
[   40.377001] global dirty=49818 writeback=17027 nfs=0 flags=CM towrite=0 skipped=0

> +
> +	return dirtied + dirtied / 2;
>  }

Thanks,
Fengguang

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