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Wu Fengguang aed21ad28b writeback: comment on the bdi dirty threshold 
We do "floating proportions" to let active devices to grow its target
share of dirty pages and stalled/inactive devices to decrease its target
share over time.

It works well except in the case of "an inactive disk suddenly goes
busy", where the initial target share may be too small. To mitigate
this, bdi_position_ratio() has the below line to raise a small
bdi_thresh when it's safe to do so, so that the disk be feed with enough
dirty pages for efficient IO and in turn fast rampup of bdi_thresh:

        bdi_thresh = max(bdi_thresh, (limit - dirty) / 8);

balance_dirty_pages() normally does negative feedback control which
adjusts ratelimit to balance the bdi dirty pages around the target.
In some extreme cases when that is not enough, it will have to block
the tasks completely until the bdi dirty pages drop below bdi_thresh.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-12-08 10:49:20 +08:00
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backing-dev.c backing-dev: ensure wakeup_timer is deleted 2011-11-11 13:29:04 +01:00
bootmem.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
bounce.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
cleancache.c mm: cleancache core ops functions and config 2011-05-26 10:01:36 -06:00
compaction.c mm: compaction: make compact_zone_order() static 2011-10-31 17:30:49 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c debug-pagealloc: add support for highmem pages 2011-10-31 17:30:48 -07:00
dmapool.c mm: fix implicit stat.h usage in dmapool.c 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
fadvise.c
failslab.c fault-injection: add ability to export fault_attr in arbitrary directory 2011-08-03 14:25:20 -10:00
filemap.c fs: Make write(2) interruptible by a fatal signal 2011-12-02 09:17:05 +08:00
filemap_xip.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
fremap.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
highmem.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
huge_memory.c mm: thp: tail page refcounting fix 2011-11-02 16:06:57 -07:00
hugetlb.c hugetlb: release pages in the error path of hugetlb_cow() 2011-11-15 22:41:52 -02:00
hwpoison-inject.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
init-mm.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
internal.h mm: thp: tail page refcounting fix 2011-11-02 16:06:57 -07:00
Kconfig memblock: add NO_BOOTMEM config symbol 2011-10-31 17:30:47 -07:00
Kconfig.debug mm: debug-pagealloc: fix kconfig dependency warning 2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc 2011-01-27 18:31:51 +00:00
kmemleak.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
ksm.c oom: fix race while temporarily setting current's oom_score_adj 2011-10-31 17:30:45 -07:00
maccess.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
madvise.c fs: kill i_alloc_sem 2011-07-20 20:47:46 -04:00
Makefile Cross Memory Attach 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
memblock.c mm/memblock.c: quiet sparse noise 2011-10-31 17:30:50 -07:00
memcontrol.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
memory-failure.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
memory.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mempolicy.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
mempool.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
migrate.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
mincore.c mm: clarify the radix_tree exceptional cases 2011-08-03 14:25:24 -10:00
mlock.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmap.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
mmu_context.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmu_notifier.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmzone.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
mprotect.c thp: mprotect: transparent huge page support 2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
mremap.c thp: mremap support and TLB optimization 2011-10-31 17:30:48 -07:00
msync.c sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions 2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
nobootmem.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
nommu.c xen: map foreign pages for shared rings by updating the PTEs directly 2011-11-16 12:13:08 -05:00
oom_kill.c oom: do not kill tasks with oom_score_adj OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN 2011-11-15 22:41:51 -02:00
page-writeback.c writeback: comment on the bdi dirty threshold 2011-12-08 10:49:20 +08:00
page_alloc.c mm: neaten warn_alloc_failed 2011-10-31 17:30:48 -07:00
page_cgroup.c mm/page_cgroup.c: quiet sparse noise 2011-11-02 16:07:00 -07:00
page_io.c block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG 2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
page_isolation.c mm: page_isolation: codeclean fix comment and rm unneeded val init 2010-10-26 16:52:11 -07:00
pagewalk.c pagewalk: fix code comment for THP 2011-07-25 20:57:09 -07:00
percpu-km.c percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator 2010-10-02 10:28:42 +03:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: fix chunk range calculation 2011-11-22 08:09:46 -08:00
percpu.c percpu: explain why per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() is more complicated than necessary 2011-11-23 08:20:53 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c mm/pgtable-generic.c: fix CONFIG_SWAP=n build 2011-01-26 10:49:58 +10:00
prio_tree.c sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usage 2011-05-20 12:50:29 -07:00
process_vm_access.c Cross Memory Attach 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
quicklist.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
readahead.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
rmap.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
shmem.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
slab.c mm: restrict access to slab files under procfs and sysfs 2011-09-27 22:59:27 +03:00
slob.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
slub.c lib/string.c: introduce memchr_inv() 2011-10-31 17:30:47 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
sparse.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
swap.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
swap_state.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
swapfile.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
thrash.c mm/thrash.c: quiet sparse noise 2011-10-31 17:30:50 -07:00
truncate.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
util.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
vmalloc.c xen: map foreign pages for shared rings by updating the PTEs directly 2011-11-16 12:13:08 -05:00
vmscan.c Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux 2011-11-06 19:02:23 -08:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat.c: cache align vm_stat 2011-10-31 17:30:51 -07:00