nfs_congestion_kb is to control the max allowed writeback and in-commit pages. It's not reasonable for them to outnumber dirty and to-commit pages. So each of them should not take more than 1/4 dirty threshold. Considering that nfs_init_writepagecache() is called on fresh boot, at the time dirty_thresh is much higher than the real dirty limit after lots of user space memory consumptions, use 1/8 instead. We might update nfs_congestion_kb when global dirty limit is changed at runtime, but whatever, do it simple first. CC: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang --- fs/nfs/write.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) --- linux-next.orig/fs/nfs/write.c 2010-12-08 22:44:37.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-next/fs/nfs/write.c 2010-12-08 22:44:37.000000000 +0800 @@ -1698,6 +1698,9 @@ out: int __init nfs_init_writepagecache(void) { + unsigned long background_thresh; + unsigned long dirty_thresh; + nfs_wdata_cachep = kmem_cache_create("nfs_write_data", sizeof(struct nfs_write_data), 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, @@ -1735,6 +1738,16 @@ int __init nfs_init_writepagecache(void) if (nfs_congestion_kb > 256*1024) nfs_congestion_kb = 256*1024; + /* + * Limit to 1/8 dirty threshold, so that writeback+in_commit pages + * won't overnumber dirty+to_commit pages. + */ + global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh); + dirty_thresh <<= PAGE_SHIFT - 10; + + if (nfs_congestion_kb > dirty_thresh / 8) + nfs_congestion_kb = dirty_thresh / 8; + return 0; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/