The patch titled Subject: writeback: factor out wb_bg_dirty_limits to remove repeated code has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is writeback-factor-out-wb_bg_dirty_limits-to-remove-repeated-code.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/writeback-factor-out-wb_bg_dirty_limits-to-remove-repeated-code.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: writeback: factor out wb_bg_dirty_limits to remove repeated code Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 20:52:47 +0800 Patch series "Add helper functions to remove repeated code and improve readability of cgroup writeback", v2. This series adds a lot of helpers to remove repeated code between domain and wb; dirty limit and dirty background; global domain and wb domain. The helpers also improve readability. More details can be found in the respective patches. A simple domain hierarchy is tested: global domain (> 20G) | cgroup domain1(10G) | wb1 | fio Test steps: /* make it easy to observe */ echo 300000 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs echo 3000 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs /* create cgroup domain */ cd /sys/fs/cgroup echo "+memory +io" > cgroup.subtree_control mkdir group1 cd group1 echo 10G > memory.high echo 10G > memory.max echo $$ > cgroup.procs mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/vdb mount /dev/vdb /bdi1/ /* run fio to generate dirty pages */ fio -name test -filename=/bdi1/file -size=xxx -ioengine=libaio -bs=4K \ -iodepth=1 -rw=write -direct=0 --time_based -runtime=600 -invalidate=0 When fio size is 1G, the wb is in freerun state and dirty pages are only written back when dirty inode is expired after 30 seconds. When fio size is 2G, the dirty pages keep being written back and bandwidth of fio is limited. This patch (of 8): Similar to wb_dirty_limits which calculates dirty and thresh of wb, wb_bg_dirty_limits calculates background dirty and background thresh of wb. With wb_bg_dirty_limits, we could remove repeated code in wb_over_bg_thresh. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240514125254.142203-1-shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240514125254.142203-2-shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page-writeback.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) --- a/mm/page-writeback.c~writeback-factor-out-wb_bg_dirty_limits-to-remove-repeated-code +++ a/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -2087,6 +2087,21 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(str } EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited); +/* + * Similar to wb_dirty_limits, wb_bg_dirty_limits also calculates dirty + * and thresh, but it's for background writeback. + */ +static void wb_bg_dirty_limits(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc) +{ + struct bdi_writeback *wb = dtc->wb; + + dtc->wb_bg_thresh = __wb_calc_thresh(dtc, dtc->bg_thresh); + if (dtc->wb_bg_thresh < 2 * wb_stat_error()) + dtc->wb_dirty = wb_stat_sum(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE); + else + dtc->wb_dirty = wb_stat(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE); +} + /** * wb_over_bg_thresh - does @wb need to be written back? * @wb: bdi_writeback of interest @@ -2103,8 +2118,6 @@ bool wb_over_bg_thresh(struct bdi_writeb struct dirty_throttle_control * const gdtc = &gdtc_stor; struct dirty_throttle_control * const mdtc = mdtc_valid(&mdtc_stor) ? &mdtc_stor : NULL; - unsigned long reclaimable; - unsigned long thresh; /* * Similar to balance_dirty_pages() but ignores pages being written @@ -2117,13 +2130,8 @@ bool wb_over_bg_thresh(struct bdi_writeb if (gdtc->dirty > gdtc->bg_thresh) return true; - thresh = __wb_calc_thresh(gdtc, gdtc->bg_thresh); - if (thresh < 2 * wb_stat_error()) - reclaimable = wb_stat_sum(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE); - else - reclaimable = wb_stat(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE); - - if (reclaimable > thresh) + wb_bg_dirty_limits(gdtc); + if (gdtc->wb_dirty > gdtc->wb_bg_thresh) return true; if (mdtc) { @@ -2137,13 +2145,8 @@ bool wb_over_bg_thresh(struct bdi_writeb if (mdtc->dirty > mdtc->bg_thresh) return true; - thresh = __wb_calc_thresh(mdtc, mdtc->bg_thresh); - if (thresh < 2 * wb_stat_error()) - reclaimable = wb_stat_sum(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE); - else - reclaimable = wb_stat(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE); - - if (reclaimable > thresh) + wb_bg_dirty_limits(mdtc); + if (mdtc->wb_dirty > mdtc->wb_bg_thresh) return true; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are writeback-factor-out-wb_bg_dirty_limits-to-remove-repeated-code.patch writeback-add-general-function-domain_dirty_avail-to-calculate-dirty-and-avail-of-domain.patch writeback-factor-out-domain_over_bg_thresh-to-remove-repeated-code.patch writeback-factor-out-code-of-freerun-to-remove-repeated-code.patch writeback-factor-out-wb_dirty_freerun-to-remove-more-repeated-freerun-code.patch writeback-factor-out-balance_domain_limits-to-remove-repeated-code.patch writeback-factor-out-wb_dirty_exceeded-to-remove-repeated-code.patch writeback-factor-out-balance_wb_limits-to-remove-repeated-code.patch