Revision d7831a0bdf06b9f722b947bb0c205ff7d77cebd8 authored by Richard Kennedy on 30 June 2009, 18:41:35 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 01 July 2009, 01:56:01 UTC
balance_dirty_pages can overreact and move all of the dirty pages to writeback unnecessarily. balance_dirty_pages makes its decision to throttle based on the number of dirty plus writeback pages that are over the calculated limit,so it will continue to move pages even when there are plenty of pages in writeback and less than the threshold still dirty. This allows it to overshoot its limits and move all the dirty pages to writeback while waiting for the drives to catch up and empty the writeback list. A simple fio test easily demonstrates this problem. fio --name=f1 --directory=/disk1 --size=2G -rw=write --name=f2 --directory=/disk2 --size=1G --rw=write --startdelay=10 This is the simplest fix I could find, but I'm not entirely sure that it alone will be enough for all cases. But it certainly is an improvement on my desktop machine writing to 2 disks. Do we need something more for machines with large arrays where bdi_threshold * number_of_drives is greater than the dirty_ratio ? Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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hweight.c
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/bitops.h>
#include <asm/types.h>
/**
* hweightN - returns the hamming weight of a N-bit word
* @x: the word to weigh
*
* The Hamming Weight of a number is the total number of bits set in it.
*/
unsigned int hweight32(unsigned int w)
{
unsigned int res = w - ((w >> 1) & 0x55555555);
res = (res & 0x33333333) + ((res >> 2) & 0x33333333);
res = (res + (res >> 4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F;
res = res + (res >> 8);
return (res + (res >> 16)) & 0x000000FF;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(hweight32);
unsigned int hweight16(unsigned int w)
{
unsigned int res = w - ((w >> 1) & 0x5555);
res = (res & 0x3333) + ((res >> 2) & 0x3333);
res = (res + (res >> 4)) & 0x0F0F;
return (res + (res >> 8)) & 0x00FF;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(hweight16);
unsigned int hweight8(unsigned int w)
{
unsigned int res = w - ((w >> 1) & 0x55);
res = (res & 0x33) + ((res >> 2) & 0x33);
return (res + (res >> 4)) & 0x0F;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(hweight8);
unsigned long hweight64(__u64 w)
{
#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
return hweight32((unsigned int)(w >> 32)) + hweight32((unsigned int)w);
#elif BITS_PER_LONG == 64
#ifdef ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER
w -= (w >> 1) & 0x5555555555555555ul;
w = (w & 0x3333333333333333ul) + ((w >> 2) & 0x3333333333333333ul);
w = (w + (w >> 4)) & 0x0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0ful;
return (w * 0x0101010101010101ul) >> 56;
#else
__u64 res = w - ((w >> 1) & 0x5555555555555555ul);
res = (res & 0x3333333333333333ul) + ((res >> 2) & 0x3333333333333333ul);
res = (res + (res >> 4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0Ful;
res = res + (res >> 8);
res = res + (res >> 16);
return (res + (res >> 32)) & 0x00000000000000FFul;
#endif
#endif
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(hweight64);
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