Re: [PATCH] fix task dirty balancing

From: YAMAMOTO Takashi
Date: Tue Jul 08 2008 - 19:38:56 EST


hi,

> Please beat me to cleaning up this stuff - otherwise I'll have to look
> at it when I get back from holidays.

how about the following?

YAMAMOTO Takashi


Signed-off-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 4ffb5bb..1bc833d 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -699,41 +699,6 @@ void mark_buffer_dirty_inode(struct buffer_head *bh, struct inode *inode)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mark_buffer_dirty_inode);

/*
- * Mark the page dirty, and set it dirty in the radix tree, and mark the inode
- * dirty.
- *
- * If warn is true, then emit a warning if the page is not uptodate and has
- * not been truncated.
- */
-static int __set_page_dirty(struct page *page,
- struct address_space *mapping, int warn)
-{
- if (unlikely(!mapping))
- return !TestSetPageDirty(page);
-
- if (TestSetPageDirty(page))
- return 0;
-
- spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
- if (page->mapping) { /* Race with truncate? */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(warn && !PageUptodate(page));
-
- if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
- __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
- __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info,
- BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
- task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
- }
- radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
- page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
- }
- spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
- __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
-
- return 1;
-}
-
-/*
* Add a page to the dirty page list.
*
* It is a sad fact of life that this function is called from several places
@@ -762,22 +727,21 @@ int __set_page_dirty_buffers(struct page *page)
{
struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);

- if (unlikely(!mapping))
- return !TestSetPageDirty(page);
-
- spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
- if (page_has_buffers(page)) {
- struct buffer_head *head = page_buffers(page);
- struct buffer_head *bh = head;
+ if (likely(mapping)) {
+ spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
+ if (page_has_buffers(page)) {
+ struct buffer_head *head = page_buffers(page);
+ struct buffer_head *bh = head;

- do {
- set_buffer_dirty(bh);
- bh = bh->b_this_page;
- } while (bh != head);
+ do {
+ set_buffer_dirty(bh);
+ bh = bh->b_this_page;
+ } while (bh != head);
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
}
- spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);

- return __set_page_dirty(page, mapping, 1);
+ return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_buffers);

@@ -1220,7 +1184,7 @@ void mark_buffer_dirty(struct buffer_head *bh)
}

if (!test_set_buffer_dirty(bh))
- __set_page_dirty(bh->b_page, page_mapping(bh->b_page), 0);
+ __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(bh->b_page);
}

/*
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 29b1d1e..e6fa69e 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ void bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdi_writeout_inc);

-static inline void task_dirty_inc(struct task_struct *tsk)
+static void task_dirty_inc(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
prop_inc_single(&vm_dirties, &tsk->dirties);
}
@@ -1074,12 +1074,14 @@ int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page)
*/
int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
{
- if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
- struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
- struct address_space *mapping2;
+ struct address_space *mapping;

- if (!mapping)
- return 1;
+ if (TestSetPageDirty(page))
+ return 0;
+
+ mapping = page_mapping(page);
+ if (likely(mapping)) {
+ struct address_space *mapping2;

spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
mapping2 = page_mapping(page);
@@ -1100,9 +1102,11 @@ int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
/* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
__mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
}
- return 1;
}
- return 0;
+
+ task_dirty_inc(current);
+
+ return 1;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers);

@@ -1122,7 +1126,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage);
* If the mapping doesn't provide a set_page_dirty a_op, then
* just fall through and assume that it wants buffer_heads.
*/
-static int __set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
+int set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
{
struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);

@@ -1140,14 +1144,6 @@ static int __set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
}
return 0;
}
-
-int set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
-{
- int ret = __set_page_dirty(page);
- if (ret)
- task_dirty_inc(current);
- return ret;
-}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_page_dirty);

/*
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