From a42dde04152750426cc620fd277e80fffae2f65a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:54:36 -0700 Subject: mm: bdi: allow setting a maximum for the bdi dirty limit Add "max_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi. This indicates the maximum percentage of the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi. [mszeredi@suse.cz] - fix parsing in max_ratio_store(). - export bdi_set_max_ratio() to modules - limit bdi_dirty with bdi->max_ratio - document new sysfs attribute Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page-writeback.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c') diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 4ac077f4269..2a9942f5387 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -164,7 +164,8 @@ int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, */ static inline void __bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) { - __prop_inc_percpu(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions); + __prop_inc_percpu_max(&vm_completions, &bdi->completions, + bdi->max_prop_frac); } static inline void task_dirty_inc(struct task_struct *tsk) @@ -254,16 +255,42 @@ int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio) 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 + if (min_ratio > bdi->max_ratio) { ret = -EINVAL; + } else { + 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; +} + +int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned max_ratio) +{ + unsigned long flags; + int ret = 0; + + if (max_ratio > 100) + return -EINVAL; + + spin_lock_irqsave(&bdi_lock, flags); + if (bdi->min_ratio > max_ratio) { + ret = -EINVAL; + } else { + bdi->max_ratio = max_ratio; + bdi->max_prop_frac = (PROP_FRAC_BASE * max_ratio) / 100; + } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bdi_lock, flags); return ret; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_set_max_ratio); /* * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout @@ -365,6 +392,8 @@ get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long *pdirty, long *pbdi_dirty, bdi_dirty *= numerator; do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator); bdi_dirty += (dirty * bdi->min_ratio) / 100; + if (bdi_dirty > (dirty * bdi->max_ratio) / 100) + bdi_dirty = dirty * bdi->max_ratio / 100; *pbdi_dirty = bdi_dirty; clip_bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty, pbdi_dirty); -- cgit v1.2.3