On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:43:31AM -0800, Greg Thelen wrote:
>> Add an memcg parameter to bdi_start_background_writeback(). If a memcg
>> is specified then the resulting background writeback call to
>> wb_writeback() will run until the memcg dirty memory usage drops below
>> the memcg background limit. This is used when balancing memcg dirty
>> memory with mem_cgroup_balance_dirty_pages().
>>
>> If the memcg parameter is not specified, then background writeback runs
>> globally system dirty memory usage falls below the system background
>> limit.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>
> [..]
>> -static inline bool over_bground_thresh(void)
>> +static inline bool over_bground_thresh(struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup)
>> {
>> unsigned long background_thresh, dirty_thresh;
>>
>> + if (mem_cgroup) {
>> + struct dirty_info info;
>> +
>> + if (!mem_cgroup_hierarchical_dirty_info(
>> + determine_dirtyable_memory(), false,
>> + mem_cgroup, &info))
>> + return false;
>> +
>> + return info.nr_file_dirty +
>> + info.nr_unstable_nfs > info.background_thresh;
>> + }
>> +
>> global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
>>
>> return (global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
>> @@ -683,7 +694,8 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
>> * For background writeout, stop when we are below the
>> * background dirty threshold
>> */
>> - if (work->for_background && !over_bground_thresh())
>> + if (work->for_background &&
>> + !over_bground_thresh(work->mem_cgroup))
>> break;
>>
>> wbc.more_io = 0;
>> @@ -761,23 +773,6 @@ static unsigned long get_nr_dirty_pages(void)
>> get_nr_dirty_inodes();
>> }
>>
>> -static long wb_check_background_flush(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
>> -{
>> - if (over_bground_thresh()) {
>> -
>> - struct wb_writeback_work work = {
>> - .nr_pages = LONG_MAX,
>> - .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
>> - .for_background = 1,
>> - .range_cyclic = 1,
>> - };
>> -
>> - return wb_writeback(wb, &work);
>> - }
>> -
>> - return 0;
>> -}
>> -
>> static long wb_check_old_data_flush(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
>> {
>> unsigned long expired;
>> @@ -839,15 +834,17 @@ long wb_do_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait)
>> */
>> if (work->done)
>> complete(work->done);
>> - else
>> + else {
>> + if (work->mem_cgroup)
>> + mem_cgroup_bg_writeback_done(work->mem_cgroup);
>> kfree(work);
>> + }
>> }
>>
>> /*
>> * Check for periodic writeback, kupdated() style
>> */
>> wrote += wb_check_old_data_flush(wb);
>> - wrote += wb_check_background_flush(wb);
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> So in the past we will leave the background work unfinished and try
> to finish queued work first.
>
> I see following line in wb_writeback().
>
> /*
> * Background writeout and kupdate-style writeback may
> * run forever. Stop them if there is other work to do
> * so that e.g. sync can proceed. They'll be restarted
> * after the other works are all done.
> */
> if ((work->for_background || work->for_kupdate) &&
> !list_empty(&wb->bdi->work_list))
> break;
>
> Now you seem to have converted background writeout also as queued
> work item. So it sounds wb_writebac() will finish that background
> work early and never take it up and finish other queued items. So
> we might finish queued items still flusher thread might exit
> without bringing down the background ratio of either root or memcg
> depending on the ->mem_cgroup pointer.
>
> May be requeuing the background work at the end of list might help.
Good catch! I agree that an interrupted queued bg writeback work item
should be requeued to the tail.
> Thanks
> Vivek
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