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| author | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2021-09-03 00:53:09 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-09-03 19:58:10 +0300 |
| commit | 45a2966fd64147518dc5bca25f447bd0fb5359ac (patch) | |
| tree | 8f4657fb497f54eb7d38479bb9d5cdb29f76eebe /include/linux/writeback.h | |
| parent | fee468fdf41cdf36ba6b5a780e2474d0a3e066ac (diff) | |
| download | linux-45a2966fd64147518dc5bca25f447bd0fb5359ac.tar.xz | |
writeback: fix bandwidth estimate for spiky workload
Michael Stapelberg has reported that for workload with short big spikes of
writes (GCC linker seem to trigger this frequently) the write throughput
is heavily underestimated and tends to steadily sink until it reaches
zero. This has rather bad impact on writeback throttling (causing
stalls). The problem is that writeback throughput estimate gets updated
at most once per 200 ms. One update happens early after we submit pages
for writeback (at that point writeout of only small fraction of pages is
completed and thus observed throughput is tiny). Next update happens only
during the next write spike (updates happen only from inode writeback and
dirty throttling code) and if that is more than 1s after previous spike,
we decide system was idle and just ignore whatever was written until this
moment.
Fix the problem by making sure writeback throughput estimate is also
updated shortly after writeback completes to get reasonable estimate of
throughput for spiky workloads.
[jack@suse.cz: avoid division by 0 in wb_update_dirty_ratelimit()]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210617095309.3542373-1-stapelberg+linux@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104716.22868-3-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg+linux@google.com>
Tested-by: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg+linux@google.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/writeback.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/writeback.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index 2480322c06a7..cbaef099645e 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty); unsigned long wb_calc_thresh(struct bdi_writeback *wb, unsigned long thresh); +void wb_update_bandwidth(struct bdi_writeback *wb); void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping); bool wb_over_bg_thresh(struct bdi_writeback *wb); |