linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/15] writeback: skip balance_dirty

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Message-ID: <20110613134253.GC4907@quack.suse.cz>
Date:	Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:42:53 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/15] writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for
 in-memory fs

On Sat 11-06-11 21:07:31, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > @@ -495,6 +490,9 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a
> >  	bool dirty_exceeded = false;
> >  	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
> >  
> > +	if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi))
> > +		return;
> > +
> >  	for (;;) {
> >  		struct writeback_control wbc = {
> >  			.sync_mode	= WB_SYNC_NONE,
> > 
> 
> Update: it's slightly better to do early return in
> balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(). This way the tmpfs dirties won't
> unnecessarily disturb the per-cpu bdp_ratelimits counters.
  Yup, makes sense to me.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

								Honza

> --- linux-next.orig/mm/page-writeback.c	2011-06-11 17:52:59.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux-next/mm/page-writeback.c	2011-06-11 17:53:53.000000000 +0800
> @@ -1098,9 +1098,6 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a
>  	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
>  	unsigned long start_time = jiffies;
>  
> -	if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi))
> -		return;
> -
>  	for (;;) {
>  		nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
>  					global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
> @@ -1237,9 +1234,13 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, bdp
>  void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
>  					unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied)
>  {
> +	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
>  	unsigned long ratelimit;
>  	unsigned long *p;
>  
> +	if (!bdi_cap_account_dirty(bdi))
> +		return;
> +
>  	ratelimit = ratelimit_pages;
>  	if (mapping->backing_dev_info->dirty_exceeded)
>  		ratelimit = 8;
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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