At meta network block devices (nbd) are used to implement remote block
storage. In testing and during production it has been observed that
these network block devices can consume a huge portion of the dirty
writeback cache and writeback can take a considerable time.
To be able to give stricter limits, I'm proposing the following changes:
1) introduce strictlimit knob
Currently the max_ratio knob exists to limit the dirty_memory. However
this knob only applies once (dirty_ratio + dirty_background_ratio) / 2
has been reached.
With the BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT flag, the max_ratio can be applied without
reaching that limit. This change exposes that knob.
This knob can also be useful for NFS, fuse filesystems and USB devices.
2) Use part of 1000 internal calculation
The max_ratio is based on percentage. With the current machine sizes
percentage values can be very high (1% of a 256GB main memory is already
2.5GB). This change uses part of 1000 instead of percentages for the
internal calculations.
3) Introduce two new sysfs knobs: min_bytes and max_bytes.
Currently all calculations are based on ratio, but for a user it often
more convenient to specify a limit in bytes. The new knobs will not
store bytes values, instead they will translate the byte value to a
corresponding ratio. As the internal values are now part of 1000, the
ratio is closer to the specified value. However the value should be more
seen as an approximation as it can fluctuate over time.
Changes:
V3:
- change signature of function bdi_ratio_from_pages to take an unsigned long
parameter
- use div64_u64 function for division to support 32 bit platforms
- Refreshed to 6.1-rc2
V2:
- Refreshed to 6.1-rc1
- Use part of 1000, instead of part of 10000
- Reformat cover letter
*** BLURB HERE ***
Stefan Roesch (14):
mm: add bdi_set_strict_limit() function
mm: add knob /sys/class/bdi/<bdi>/strict_limit
mm: document /sys/class/bdi/<bdi>/strict_limit knob
mm: use part per 1000 for bdi ratios.
mm: add bdi_get_max_bytes() function
mm: split off __bdi_set_max_ratio() function
mm: add bdi_set_max_bytes() function.
mm: add knob /sys/class/bdi/<bdi>/max_bytes
mm: document /sys/class/bdi/<bdi>/max_bytes knob
mm: add bdi_get_min_bytes() function.
mm: split off __bdi_set_min_ratio() function
mm: add bdi_set_min_bytes() function
mm: add /sys/class/bdi/<bdi>/min_bytes knob
mm: document /sys/class/bdi/<bdi>/min_bytes knob
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi | 40 +++++++
include/linux/backing-dev.h | 8 ++
mm/backing-dev.c | 93 +++++++++++++++-
mm/page-writeback.c | 127 ++++++++++++++++++++--
4 files changed, 254 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
base-commit: 247f34f7b80357943234f93f247a1ae6b6c3a740
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