From 54848d73f9f254631303d6eab9b976855988b266 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wu Fengguang Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:21:19 -0600 Subject: writeback: charge leaked page dirties to active tasks It's a years long problem that a large number of short-lived dirtiers (eg. gcc instances in a fast kernel build) may starve long-run dirtiers (eg. dd) as well as pushing the dirty pages to the global hard limit. The solution is to charge the pages dirtied by the exited gcc to the other random dirtying tasks. It sounds not perfect, however should behave good enough in practice, seeing as that throttled tasks aren't actually running so those that are running are more likely to pick it up and get throttled, therefore promoting an equal spread. Randy: fix compile error: 'dirty_throttle_leaks' undeclared in exit.c Acked-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang --- kernel/exit.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index d0b7d988f873..d4aac24cc469 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -1037,6 +1038,8 @@ NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code) validate_creds_for_do_exit(tsk); preempt_disable(); + if (tsk->nr_dirtied) + __this_cpu_add(dirty_throttle_leaks, tsk->nr_dirtied); exit_rcu(); /* causes final put_task_struct in finish_task_switch(). */ tsk->state = TASK_DEAD; -- cgit v1.2.2 From 83712358ba0a1497ce59a4f84ce4dd0f803fe6fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wu Fengguang Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:25:42 -0600 Subject: writeback: dirty ratelimit - think time compensation Compensate the task's think time when computing the final pause time, so that ->dirty_ratelimit can be executed accurately. think time := time spend outside of balance_dirty_pages() In the rare case that the task slept longer than the 200ms period time (result in negative pause time), the sleep time will be compensated in the following periods, too, if it's less than 1 second. Accumulated errors are carefully avoided as long as the max pause area is not hitted. Pseudo code: period = pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit; think = jiffies - dirty_paused_when; pause = period - think; 1) normal case: period > think pause = period - think dirty_paused_when = jiffies + pause nr_dirtied = 0 period time |===============================>| think time pause time |===============>|==============>| ------|----------------|---------------|------------------------ dirty_paused_when jiffies 2) no pause case: period <= think don't pause; reduce future pause time by: dirty_paused_when += period nr_dirtied = 0 period time |===============================>| think time |===================================================>| ------|--------------------------------+-------------------|---- dirty_paused_when jiffies Acked-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang --- kernel/fork.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index da4a6a10d088..f8668cf6a32d 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1296,6 +1296,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, p->nr_dirtied = 0; p->nr_dirtied_pause = 128 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10); + p->dirty_paused_when = 0; /* * Ok, make it visible to the rest of the system. -- cgit v1.2.2