linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] writeback: support retrieving per group debug writeback stats of bdi

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Message-ID: <206c3800-01ec-2d3b-fe89-cbb1b36158a3@huaweicloud.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:26:42 +0800
From: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tj@...nel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 willy@...radead.org, bfoster@...hat.com, dsterba@...e.com,
 mjguzik@...il.com, dhowells@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] writeback: support retrieving per group debug
 writeback stats of bdi



on 3/26/2024 8:24 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 20-03-24 19:02:18, Kemeng Shi wrote:
>> Add /sys/kernel/debug/bdi/xxx/wb_stats to show per group writeback stats
>> of bdi.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>
> 
> ...
> 
>> +unsigned long wb_calc_cg_thresh(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
>> +{
>> +	struct dirty_throttle_control gdtc = { GDTC_INIT_NO_WB };
>> +	struct dirty_throttle_control mdtc = { MDTC_INIT(wb, &gdtc) };
>> +	unsigned long filepages, headroom, writeback;
>> +
>> +	gdtc.avail = global_dirtyable_memory();
>> +	gdtc.dirty = global_node_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
>> +		     global_node_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK);
>> +
>> +	mem_cgroup_wb_stats(wb, &filepages, &headroom,
>> +			    &mdtc.dirty, &writeback);
>> +	mdtc.dirty += writeback;
>> +	mdtc_calc_avail(&mdtc, filepages, headroom);
>> +	domain_dirty_limits(&mdtc);
>> +
>> +	return __wb_calc_thresh(&mdtc, mdtc.thresh);
>> +}
> 
> I kind of wish we didn't replicate this logic from balance_dirty_pages()
> and wb_over_bg_thresh() into yet another place. But the refactoring would
> be kind of difficult. So OK.
Thanks for review the code.
I have considered about this. It's difficult and will introduce a lot
change to non-debug code which make this series uneasy to review.
I will submit another patch for refactoring if I could find a way to
clean the code.

Kemeng
> 
> 								Honza
>