mm: bdi: allow setting a minimum for the bdi dirty limit

Under normal circumstances each device is given a part of the total write-back
cache that relates to its current avg writeout speed in relation to the other
devices.

min_ratio - allows one to assign a minimum portion of the write-back cache to
a particular device.  This is useful in situations where you might want to
provide a minimum QoS.  (One request for this feature came from flash based
storage people who wanted to avoid writing out at all costs - they of course
needed some pdflush hacks as well)

max_ratio - allows one to assign a maximum portion of the dirty limit to a
particular device.  This is useful in situations where you want to avoid one
device taking all or most of the write-back cache.  Eg.  an NFS mount that is
prone to get stuck, or a FUSE mount which you don't trust to play fair.

Add "min_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi.  This indicates the minimum percentage of
the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi.

[mszeredi@suse.cz]

 - fix parsing in min_ratio_store()
 - document new sysfs attribute

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi
index b800cdda40bb7b66434cf09abd766942cad28835..b9e8a9368dc6b40a0ee3c97851bbfdd13134ea89 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi
@@ -44,3 +44,9 @@ bdi_dirty_kb (read-only)
        Current threshold on this BDI for reclaimable + writeback
        memory
 
+min_ratio (read-write)
+
+       Minimal percentage of global dirty threshold allocated to this
+       bdi.  If the value written to this file would make the the sum
+       of all min_ratio values exceed 100, then EINVAL is returned.
+       The default is zero

diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
index 6d513666d45ce2568b0d25565e5756bfded014e1..9a8965518d1d9c0d4eee7d8bb95eb7fc769f167a 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ struct backing_dev_info {
        struct prop_local_percpu completions;
        int dirty_exceeded;
 
+       unsigned int min_ratio;
+
        struct device *dev;
 };
 
@@ -137,6 +139,8 @@ static inline unsigned long bdi_stat_error(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
 #endif
 }
 
+int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio);
+
 /*
  * Flags in backing_dev_info::capability
  * - The first two flags control whether dirty pages will contribute to the

diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 847eabe4824cd5c8c7cd84c712cb6d2db1f98249..4967fb176e532c07bca7979becea7fa25b2b8f6e 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -55,6 +55,24 @@ static inline unsigned long get_dirty(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int i)
 BDI_SHOW(dirty_kb, K(get_dirty(bdi, 1)))
 BDI_SHOW(bdi_dirty_kb, K(get_dirty(bdi, 2)))
 
+static ssize_t min_ratio_store(struct device *dev,
+               struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+       struct backing_dev_info *bdi = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+       char *end;
+       unsigned int ratio;
+       ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
+
+       ratio = simple_strtoul(buf, &end, 10);
+       if (*buf && (end[0] == '\0' || (end[0] == '\n' && end[1] == '\0'))) {
+               ret = bdi_set_min_ratio(bdi, ratio);
+               if (!ret)
+                       ret = count;
+       }
+       return ret;
+}
+BDI_SHOW(min_ratio, bdi->min_ratio)
+
 #define __ATTR_RW(attr) __ATTR(attr, 0644, attr##_show, attr##_store)
 
 static struct device_attribute bdi_dev_attrs[] = {
@@ -63,6 +81,7 @@ static struct device_attribute bdi_dev_attrs[] = {
        __ATTR_RO(writeback_kb),
        __ATTR_RO(dirty_kb),
        __ATTR_RO(bdi_dirty_kb),
+       __ATTR_RW(min_ratio),
        __ATTR_NULL,
 };
 
@@ -127,6 +146,8 @@ int bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
 
        bdi->dev = NULL;
 
+       bdi->min_ratio = 0;
+
        for (i = 0; i < NR_BDI_STAT_ITEMS; i++) {
                err = percpu_counter_init_irq(&bdi->bdi_stat[i], 0);
                if (err)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index e5b6b1190a954c59596bd3cee1544422c031fa9c..4ac077f4269c8675759028b5eba264d6bb17ecb5 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -242,6 +242,29 @@ static void task_dirty_limit(struct task_struct *tsk, long *pdirty)
        *pdirty = dirty;
 }
 
+/*
+ *
+ */
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(bdi_lock);
+static unsigned int bdi_min_ratio;
+
+int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio)
+{
+       int ret = 0;
+       unsigned long flags;
+
+       spin_lock_irqsave(&bdi_lock, flags);
+       min_ratio -= bdi->min_ratio;
+       if (bdi_min_ratio + min_ratio < 100) {
+               bdi_min_ratio += min_ratio;
+               bdi->min_ratio += min_ratio;
+       } else
+               ret = -EINVAL;
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bdi_lock, flags);
+
+       return ret;
+}
+
 /*
  * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
  * thresholds.
@@ -330,7 +353,7 @@ get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long *pdirty, long *pbdi_dirty,
        *pdirty = dirty;
 
        if (bdi) {
-               u64 bdi_dirty = dirty;
+               u64 bdi_dirty;
                long numerator, denominator;
 
                /*
@@ -338,8 +361,10 @@ get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long *pdirty, long *pbdi_dirty,
                 */
                bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, &numerator, &denominator);
 
+               bdi_dirty = (dirty * (100 - bdi_min_ratio)) / 100;
                bdi_dirty *= numerator;
                do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator);
+               bdi_dirty += (dirty * bdi->min_ratio) / 100;
 
                *pbdi_dirty = bdi_dirty;
                clip_bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty, pbdi_dirty);