Re: [PATCH 18/45] writeback: introduce wait queue forbalance_dirty_pages()

From: Wu Fengguang
Date: Thu Oct 08 2009 - 02:30:17 EST


On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:59:07PM +0800, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 12:01:36 +0800
> Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:40:37AM +0800, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > > Thank you for clarification.
> > > Then, hmm, %iotwait (which 'top' shows) didn't work as desgined and we need
> > > to update throttle_vm_writeout() and some in vmscan.c. Thanks for input.
> >
> > Thanks, you also reminds me to do io_schedule() in the nfs writeback
> > wait queue :)
> >
> good side effect ;)
>
> > > BTW, I'm glad if I can know "how many threads/ios are throttoled now" per bdi.
> >
> > Good suggestion. How about this patch?
> >
>
> Seems attractive.
> Hmm..
> ==
> struct dirty_throttle_task {
> + pid_t owner_pid;
> ==
> and show it ? (too verbose ?

Not all all, added comm too :)

---
writeback: show per-bdi throttled tasks

All currently throttled tasks will be listed, showing the pages to
writeback for them, and total wait time since blocked.

# cat /debug/bdi/0:16/throttle_list
goal=768kb waited=36ms pid=3551 comm=cp


CC: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fs-writeback.c | 6 +++--
include/linux/backing-dev.h | 3 ++
mm/backing-dev.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- linux.orig/include/linux/backing-dev.h 2009-10-08 12:37:13.000000000 +0800
+++ linux/include/linux/backing-dev.h 2009-10-08 14:10:44.000000000 +0800
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ struct backing_dev_info {
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
struct dentry *debug_dir;
struct dentry *debug_stats;
+ struct dentry *debug_throttle;
#endif
};

@@ -116,6 +117,8 @@ struct backing_dev_info {
#define DIRTY_THROTTLE_PAGES_STOP (1 << 22)

struct dirty_throttle_task {
+ struct task_struct *sleeper;
+ unsigned long start_time;
long nr_pages;
struct list_head list;
struct completion complete;
--- linux.orig/mm/backing-dev.c 2009-10-08 12:37:42.000000000 +0800
+++ linux/mm/backing-dev.c 2009-10-08 14:12:35.000000000 +0800
@@ -115,6 +115,25 @@ static int bdi_debug_stats_show(struct s
return 0;
}

+static int bdi_debug_throttle_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
+{
+ struct backing_dev_info *bdi = m->private;
+ struct dirty_throttle_task *tt;
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&bdi->throttle_lock, flags);
+ list_for_each_entry(tt, &bdi->throttle_list, list) {
+ seq_printf(m, "goal=%lukb\twaited=%lums\tpid=%d\tcomm=%s\n",
+ tt->nr_pages << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10),
+ (jiffies - tt->start_time) * 1000 / HZ,
+ tt->sleeper->pid,
+ tt->sleeper->comm);
+ }
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bdi->throttle_lock, flags);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int bdi_debug_stats_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
return single_open(file, bdi_debug_stats_show, inode->i_private);
@@ -127,15 +146,31 @@ static const struct file_operations bdi_
.release = single_release,
};

+static int bdi_debug_throttle_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
+{
+ return single_open(file, bdi_debug_throttle_show, inode->i_private);
+}
+
+static const struct file_operations bdi_debug_throttle_fops = {
+ .open = bdi_debug_throttle_open,
+ .read = seq_read,
+ .llseek = seq_lseek,
+ .release = single_release,
+};
+
static void bdi_debug_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, const char *name)
{
bdi->debug_dir = debugfs_create_dir(name, bdi_debug_root);
bdi->debug_stats = debugfs_create_file("stats", 0444, bdi->debug_dir,
bdi, &bdi_debug_stats_fops);
+ bdi->debug_throttle = debugfs_create_file("throttle_list", 0444,
+ bdi->debug_dir, bdi,
+ &bdi_debug_throttle_fops);
}

static void bdi_debug_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
+ debugfs_remove(bdi->debug_throttle);
debugfs_remove(bdi->debug_stats);
debugfs_remove(bdi->debug_dir);
}
--- linux.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c 2009-10-08 12:37:24.000000000 +0800
+++ linux/fs/fs-writeback.c 2009-10-08 14:10:51.000000000 +0800
@@ -284,8 +284,10 @@ static void bdi_calc_write_bandwidth(str
void bdi_writeback_wait(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, long nr_pages)
{
struct dirty_throttle_task tt = {
- .nr_pages = nr_pages,
- .complete = COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK(tt.complete),
+ .sleeper = current,
+ .start_time = jiffies,
+ .nr_pages = nr_pages,
+ .complete = COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK(tt.complete),
};
unsigned long flags;

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