From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, neilb@suse.de,
dgc@sgi.com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com,
a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, nikita@clusterfs.com,
trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, yingchao.zhou@gmail.com,
richard@rsk.demon.co.uk, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v10
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:53:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070911195350.825778000@chello.nl> (raw)
Per device dirty throttling patches
These patches aim to improve balance_dirty_pages() and directly address three
issues:
1) inter device starvation
2) stacked device deadlocks
3) inter process starvation
1 and 2 are a direct result from removing the global dirty limit and using
per device dirty limits. By giving each device its own dirty limit is will
no longer starve another device, and the cyclic dependancy on the dirty limit
is broken.
In order to efficiently distribute the dirty limit across the independant
devices a floating proportion is used, this will allocate a share of the total
limit proportional to the device's recent activity.
3 is done by also scaling the dirty limit proportional to the current task's
recent dirty rate.
Changes since -v9:
- cleaned up the perpcu_counter_init code
- little fixups
- fwd port to .23-rc4-mm1
Changes since -v8:
- cleanup of the proportion code
- fix percpu_counter_add(&counter, -(unsigned long))
- fix per task dirty rate code
- fwd port to .23-rc2-mm2
next reply other threads:[~2007-09-11 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-11 19:53 Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-09-11 19:53 ` [PATCH 01/23] nfs: remove congestion_end() Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:53 ` [PATCH 02/23] lib: percpu_counter_add Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:53 ` [PATCH 03/23] lib: percpu_counter_sub Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:53 ` [PATCH 04/23] lib: percpu_counter variable batch Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:53 ` [PATCH 05/23] lib: make percpu_counter_add take s64 Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:53 ` [PATCH 06/23] lib: percpu_counter_set Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:53 ` [PATCH 07/23] lib: percpu_counter_sum_positive Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:53 ` [PATCH 08/23] lib: percpu_count_sum() Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:53 ` [PATCH 09/23] lib: percpu_counter_init error handling Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:54 ` [PATCH 10/23] lib: percpu_counter_init_irq Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:54 ` [PATCH 11/23] mm: bdi init hooks Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:54 ` [PATCH 12/23] containers: " Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:54 ` [PATCH 13/23] mtd: " Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:54 ` [PATCH 14/23] mtd: clean up the backing_dev_info usage Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:54 ` [PATCH 15/23] mtd: give mtdconcat devices their own backing_dev_info Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:54 ` [PATCH 16/23] mm: scalable bdi statistics counters Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:54 ` [PATCH 17/23] mm: count reclaimable pages per BDI Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:54 ` [PATCH 18/23] mm: count writeback " Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:54 ` [PATCH 19/23] mm: expose BDI statistics in sysfs Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:54 ` [PATCH 20/23] lib: floating proportions Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:54 ` [PATCH 21/23] mm: per device dirty threshold Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-12 2:36 ` John Stoffel
2007-09-12 8:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:54 ` [PATCH 22/23] mm: dirty balancing for tasks Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 19:54 ` [PATCH 23/23] debug: sysfs files for the current ratio/size/total Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-12 2:31 ` [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v10 John Stoffel
2007-09-12 9:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-13 23:13 Tobias Oetiker
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