Add two new fields to the task_struct to support async
write throttling.
- One field to store how long writes are throttled: bdp_pause
- The other field to store the number of dirtied pages:
bdp_nr_dirtied_pause
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@xxxxxx>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 3 +++
kernel/fork.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index a8911b1f35aa..98d70f2945e3 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1327,6 +1327,9 @@ struct task_struct {
/* Start of a write-and-pause period: */
unsigned long dirty_paused_when;
+ unsigned long bdp_pause;
+ int bdp_nr_dirtied_pause;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_LATENCYTOP
int latency_record_count;
struct latency_record latency_record[LT_SAVECOUNT];
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 9796897560ab..5bc6298827fc 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2316,6 +2316,7 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
p->nr_dirtied = 0;
p->nr_dirtied_pause = 128 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
p->dirty_paused_when = 0;
+ p->bdp_nr_dirtied_pause = -1;
p->pdeath_signal = 0;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->thread_group);
--
2.30.2
