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From: Stefan Roesch <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
	<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
	<[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
	<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Subject: [PATCH v7 01/15] mm: Move starting of background writeback into the main balancing loop
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2022 14:01:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

From: Jan Kara <[email protected]>

We start background writeback if we are over background threshold after
exiting the main loop in balance_dirty_pages(). This may result in
basing the decision on already stale values (we may have slept for
significant amount of time) and it is also inconvenient for refactoring
needed for async dirty throttling. Move the check into the main waiting
loop.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <[email protected]>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c | 31 ++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 55c2776ae699..e59c523aed1a 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1627,6 +1627,19 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
 			}
 		}
 
+		/*
+		 * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold
+		 * before starting background writeout, and then write out all
+		 * the way down to the lower threshold.  So slow writers cause
+		 * minimal disk activity.
+		 *
+		 * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower
+		 * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
+		 */
+		if (!laptop_mode && nr_reclaimable > gdtc->bg_thresh &&
+		    !writeback_in_progress(wb))
+			wb_start_background_writeback(wb);
+
 		/*
 		 * Throttle it only when the background writeback cannot
 		 * catch-up. This avoids (excessively) small writeouts
@@ -1657,6 +1670,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
 			break;
 		}
 
+		/* Start writeback even when in laptop mode */
 		if (unlikely(!writeback_in_progress(wb)))
 			wb_start_background_writeback(wb);
 
@@ -1823,23 +1837,6 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
 
 	if (!dirty_exceeded && wb->dirty_exceeded)
 		wb->dirty_exceeded = 0;
-
-	if (writeback_in_progress(wb))
-		return;
-
-	/*
-	 * In laptop mode, we wait until hitting the higher threshold before
-	 * starting background writeout, and then write out all the way down
-	 * to the lower threshold.  So slow writers cause minimal disk activity.
-	 *
-	 * In normal mode, we start background writeout at the lower
-	 * background_thresh, to keep the amount of dirty memory low.
-	 */
-	if (laptop_mode)
-		return;
-
-	if (nr_reclaimable > gdtc->bg_thresh)
-		wb_start_background_writeback(wb);
 }
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits);
-- 
2.30.2



  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-01 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-01 21:01 [PATCH v7 00/15] io-uring/xfs: support async buffered writes Stefan Roesch
2022-06-01 21:01 ` Stefan Roesch [this message]
2022-06-01 21:01 ` [PATCH v7 02/15] mm: Move updates of dirty_exceeded into one place Stefan Roesch
2022-06-01 21:01 ` [PATCH v7 03/15] mm: Add balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags() function Stefan Roesch
2022-06-01 21:01 ` [PATCH v7 04/15] iomap: Add flags parameter to iomap_page_create() Stefan Roesch
2022-06-02 16:26   ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-06-01 21:01 ` [PATCH v7 05/15] iomap: Add async buffered write support Stefan Roesch
2022-06-01 21:01 ` [PATCH v7 06/15] iomap: Return error code from iomap_write_iter() Stefan Roesch
2022-06-02 12:38   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-06-02 17:08     ` Stefan Roesch
2022-06-01 21:01 ` [PATCH v7 07/15] fs: Add check for async buffered writes to generic_write_checks Stefan Roesch
2022-06-01 21:01 ` [PATCH v7 08/15] fs: add __remove_file_privs() with flags parameter Stefan Roesch
2022-06-02  9:04   ` Jan Kara
2022-06-01 21:01 ` [PATCH v7 09/15] fs: Split off inode_needs_update_time and __file_update_time Stefan Roesch
2022-06-02  8:44   ` Jan Kara
2022-06-02 12:57   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-06-01 21:01 ` [PATCH v7 10/15] fs: Add async write file modification handling Stefan Roesch
2022-06-02  8:44   ` Jan Kara
2022-06-02  9:06   ` Jan Kara
2022-06-02 21:00     ` Stefan Roesch
2022-06-03 10:12       ` Jan Kara
2022-06-01 21:01 ` [PATCH v7 11/15] fs: Optimization for concurrent file time updates Stefan Roesch
2022-06-02  8:59   ` Jan Kara
2022-06-01 21:01 ` [PATCH v7 12/15] io_uring: Add support for async buffered writes Stefan Roesch
2022-06-01 21:01 ` [PATCH v7 13/15] io_uring: Add tracepoint for short writes Stefan Roesch
2022-06-01 21:01 ` [PATCH v7 14/15] xfs: Specify lockmode when calling xfs_ilock_for_iomap() Stefan Roesch
2022-06-02 16:25   ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-06-01 21:01 ` [PATCH v7 15/15] xfs: Add async buffered write support Stefan Roesch
2022-06-02  8:09 ` [PATCH v7 00/15] io-uring/xfs: support async buffered writes Jens Axboe
2022-06-03  2:43   ` Dave Chinner
2022-06-03 13:04     ` Jens Axboe
2022-06-07 16:41       ` Stefan Roesch

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