On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:59:07PM +0800, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 12:01:36 +0800 > Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:40:37AM +0800, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > > Thank you for clarification. > > > Then, hmm, %iotwait (which 'top' shows) didn't work as desgined and we need > > > to update throttle_vm_writeout() and some in vmscan.c. Thanks for input. > > > > Thanks, you also reminds me to do io_schedule() in the nfs writeback > > wait queue :) > > > good side effect ;) > > > > BTW, I'm glad if I can know "how many threads/ios are throttoled now" per bdi. > > > > Good suggestion. How about this patch? > > > > Seems attractive. > Hmm.. > == > struct dirty_throttle_task { > + pid_t owner_pid; > == > and show it ? (too verbose ? Not all all, added comm too :) --- writeback: show per-bdi throttled tasks All currently throttled tasks will be listed, showing the pages to writeback for them, and total wait time since blocked. # cat /debug/bdi/0:16/throttle_list goal=768kb waited=36ms pid=3551 comm=cp CC: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 6 +++-- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 3 ++ mm/backing-dev.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux.orig/include/linux/backing-dev.h 2009-10-08 12:37:13.000000000 +0800 +++ linux/include/linux/backing-dev.h 2009-10-08 14:10:44.000000000 +0800 @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ struct backing_dev_info { #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS struct dentry *debug_dir; struct dentry *debug_stats; + struct dentry *debug_throttle; #endif }; @@ -116,6 +117,8 @@ struct backing_dev_info { #define DIRTY_THROTTLE_PAGES_STOP (1 << 22) struct dirty_throttle_task { + struct task_struct *sleeper; + unsigned long start_time; long nr_pages; struct list_head list; struct completion complete; --- linux.orig/mm/backing-dev.c 2009-10-08 12:37:42.000000000 +0800 +++ linux/mm/backing-dev.c 2009-10-08 14:12:35.000000000 +0800 @@ -115,6 +115,25 @@ static int bdi_debug_stats_show(struct s return 0; } +static int bdi_debug_throttle_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) +{ + struct backing_dev_info *bdi = m->private; + struct dirty_throttle_task *tt; + unsigned long flags; + + spin_lock_irqsave(&bdi->throttle_lock, flags); + list_for_each_entry(tt, &bdi->throttle_list, list) { + seq_printf(m, "goal=%lukb\twaited=%lums\tpid=%d\tcomm=%s\n", + tt->nr_pages << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10), + (jiffies - tt->start_time) * 1000 / HZ, + tt->sleeper->pid, + tt->sleeper->comm); + } + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bdi->throttle_lock, flags); + + return 0; +} + static int bdi_debug_stats_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { return single_open(file, bdi_debug_stats_show, inode->i_private); @@ -127,15 +146,31 @@ static const struct file_operations bdi_ .release = single_release, }; +static int bdi_debug_throttle_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) +{ + return single_open(file, bdi_debug_throttle_show, inode->i_private); +} + +static const struct file_operations bdi_debug_throttle_fops = { + .open = bdi_debug_throttle_open, + .read = seq_read, + .llseek = seq_lseek, + .release = single_release, +}; + static void bdi_debug_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, const char *name) { bdi->debug_dir = debugfs_create_dir(name, bdi_debug_root); bdi->debug_stats = debugfs_create_file("stats", 0444, bdi->debug_dir, bdi, &bdi_debug_stats_fops); + bdi->debug_throttle = debugfs_create_file("throttle_list", 0444, + bdi->debug_dir, bdi, + &bdi_debug_throttle_fops); } static void bdi_debug_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) { + debugfs_remove(bdi->debug_throttle); debugfs_remove(bdi->debug_stats); debugfs_remove(bdi->debug_dir); } --- linux.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c 2009-10-08 12:37:24.000000000 +0800 +++ linux/fs/fs-writeback.c 2009-10-08 14:10:51.000000000 +0800 @@ -284,8 +284,10 @@ static void bdi_calc_write_bandwidth(str void bdi_writeback_wait(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, long nr_pages) { struct dirty_throttle_task tt = { - .nr_pages = nr_pages, - .complete = COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK(tt.complete), + .sleeper = current, + .start_time = jiffies, + .nr_pages = nr_pages, + .complete = COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK(tt.complete), }; unsigned long flags; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html