[PATCH 0/6] Improve visibility of writeback

[Kemeng Shi]

This series tries to improve visilibity of writeback. Patch 1 make
/sys/kernel/debug/bdi/xxx/stats show writeback info of whole bdi
instead of only writeback info in root cgroup. Patch 2 add a new
debug file /sys/kernel/debug/bdi/xxx/wb_stats to show per wb writeback
info. Patch 4 add wb_monitor.py to monitor basic writeback info
of running system, more info could be added on demand. Rest patches
are some random cleanups. More details can be found in respective
patches. Thanks!

Following domain hierarchy is tested:
                global domain (320G)
                /                 \
        cgroup domain1(10G)     cgroup domain2(10G)
                |                 |
bdi            wb1               wb2

/* all writeback info of bdi is successfully collected */
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/bdi/252:16/stats:
BdiWriteback:              448 kB
BdiReclaimable:        1303904 kB
BdiDirtyThresh:      189914124 kB
DirtyThresh:         195337564 kB
BackgroundThresh:     32516508 kB
BdiDirtied:            3591392 kB
BdiWritten:            2287488 kB
BdiWriteBandwidth:      322248 kBps
b_dirty:                     0
b_io:                        0
b_more_io:                   2
b_dirty_time:                0
bdi_list:                    1
state:                       1

/* per wb writeback info is collected */
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/bdi/252:16/wb_stats:
cat wb_stats
WbCgIno:                    1
WbWriteback:                0 kB
WbReclaimable:              0 kB
WbDirtyThresh:              0 kB
WbDirtied:                  0 kB
WbWritten:                  0 kB
WbWriteBandwidth:      102400 kBps
b_dirty:                    0
b_io:                       0
b_more_io:                  0
b_dirty_time:               0
state:                      1
WbCgIno:                 4284
WbWriteback:              448 kB
WbReclaimable:         818944 kB
WbDirtyThresh:        3096524 kB
WbDirtied:            2266880 kB
WbWritten:            1447936 kB
WbWriteBandwidth:      214036 kBps
b_dirty:                    0
b_io:                       0
b_more_io:                  1
b_dirty_time:               0
state:                      5
WbCgIno:                 4325
WbWriteback:              224 kB
WbReclaimable:         819392 kB
WbDirtyThresh:        2920088 kB
WbDirtied:            2551808 kB
WbWritten:            1732416 kB
WbWriteBandwidth:      201832 kBps
b_dirty:                    0
b_io:                       0
b_more_io:                  1
b_dirty_time:               0
state:                      5

/* monitor writeback info */
# ./wb_monitor.py 252:16 -c
                  writeback  reclaimable   dirtied   written    avg_bw
252:16_1                  0            0         0         0    102400
252:16_4284             672       820064   9230368   8410304    685612
252:16_4325             896       819840  10491264   9671648    652348
252:16                 1568      1639904  19721632  18081952   1440360


                  writeback  reclaimable   dirtied   written    avg_bw
252:16_1                  0            0         0         0    102400
252:16_4284             672       820064   9230368   8410304    685612
252:16_4325             896       819840  10491264   9671648    652348
252:16                 1568      1639904  19721632  18081952   1440360
..



Kemeng Shi (6):
  writeback: collect stats of all wb of bdi in bdi_debug_stats_show
  writeback: support retrieving per group debug writeback stats of bdi
  workqueue: remove unnecessary import and function in wq_monitor.py
  writeback: add wb_monitor.py script to monitor writeback info on bdi
  writeback: rename nr_reclaimable to nr_dirty in balance_dirty_pages
  writeback: remove unneeded GDTC_INIT_NO_WB

 include/linux/writeback.h     |   1 +
 mm/backing-dev.c              | 159 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 mm/page-writeback.c           |  32 +++++--
 tools/workqueue/wq_monitor.py |   9 +-
 tools/writeback/wb_monitor.py | 172 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 334 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/writeback/wb_monitor.py

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