From 275a082fe9308e710324e26ccb5363c53d8fd45f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:06:24 -0400 Subject: Add a real API for dealing with blk_congestion_wait() Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust --- include/linux/writeback.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/writeback.h') diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index 9e38b566d0e7..0422036af4eb 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ int wakeup_pdflush(long nr_pages); void laptop_io_completion(void); void laptop_sync_completion(void); void throttle_vm_writeout(void); +void writeback_congestion_end(void); /* These are exported to sysctl. */ extern int dirty_background_ratio; -- cgit v1.2.3 From edc79b2a46ed854595e40edcf3f8b37f9f14aa3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:30:58 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: balance dirty pages Now that we can detect writers of shared mappings, throttle them. Avoids OOM by surprise. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/writeback.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/writeback.h') diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index 0422036af4eb..56a23a0e7f2e 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ int sync_page_range(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping, loff_t pos, loff_t count); int sync_page_range_nolock(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping, loff_t pos, loff_t count); +void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page); /* pdflush.c */ extern int nr_pdflush_threads; /* Global so it can be exported to sysctl -- cgit v1.2.3 From 2d1d43f6a43b703587e759145f69467e7c6553a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chandra Seetharaman Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:01:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] call mm/page-writeback.c:set_ratelimit() when new pages are hot-added ratelimit_pages in page-writeback.c is recalculated (in set_ratelimit()) every time a CPU is hot-added/removed. But this value is not recalculated when new pages are hot-added. This patch fixes that problem by calling set_ratelimit() when new pages are hot-added. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/writeback.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/writeback.h') diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index 56a23a0e7f2e..9d4074ecd0cd 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ int sync_page_range(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping, int sync_page_range_nolock(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping, loff_t pos, loff_t count); void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page); +void writeback_set_ratelimit(void); /* pdflush.c */ extern int nr_pdflush_threads; /* Global so it can be exported to sysctl -- cgit v1.2.3 From 811d736f9e8013966e1a5a930c0db09508bdbb15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:06:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] BLOCK: Dissociate generic_writepages() from mpage stuff [try #6] Dissociate the generic_writepages() function from the mpage stuff, moving its declaration to linux/mm.h and actually emitting a full implementation into mm/page-writeback.c. The implementation is a partial duplicate of mpage_writepages() with all BIO references removed. It is used by NFS to do writeback. Signed-Off-By: David Howells Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/writeback.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/writeback.h') diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index 9d4074ecd0cd..4f4d98addb44 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping) } int pdflush_operation(void (*fn)(unsigned long), unsigned long arg0); +extern int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, + struct writeback_control *wbc); int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc); int sync_page_range(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping, loff_t pos, loff_t count); -- cgit v1.2.3