From e0ea549f8853275acc958b50381d3d6443711e20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 22:23:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] mm: Move starting of background writeback into the main balancing loop 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 --- 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 7e2da284e427..8e5e003f0093 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -1618,6 +1618,19 @@ 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 @@ -1648,6 +1661,7 @@ 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); @@ -1814,23 +1828,6 @@ 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); -- 2.35.3