linux_dsm_epyc7002/mm
Andrew Morton 9c50823eeb [PATCH] msync(): perform dirty page levelling
It seems sensible to perform dirty page throttling in msync: as the application
dirties pages we can kick off pdflush early, or even force the msync() caller
to perform writeout, or even throttle the msync() caller.

The main effect of this is to start disk writeback earlier if we've just
discovered that a large amount of pagecache has been dirtied.  (Otherwise it
wouldn't happen for up to five seconds, next time pdflush wakes up).

It also will cause the page-dirtying process to get panalised for dirtying
those pages rather than whacking someone else with the problem.

We should do this for munmap() and possibly even exit(), too.

We drop the mmap_sem while performing the dirty page balancing.  It doesn't
seem right to hold mmap_sem for that long.

Note that this patch only affects MS_ASYNC.  MS_SYNC will be syncing all the
dirty pages anyway.

We note that msync(MS_SYNC) does a full-file-sync inside mmap_sem, and always
has.  We can fix that up...

The patch also tightens up the mmap_sem coverage in sys_msync(): no point in
taking it while we perform the incoming arg checking.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:26 -08:00
..
bootmem.c [PATCH] FRV: Clean up bootmem allocator's page freeing algorithm 2006-01-06 08:33:26 -08:00
fadvise.c [PATCH] fadvise(): write commands 2006-03-24 07:33:25 -08:00
filemap_xip.c [PATCH] replace inode_update_time with file_update_time 2006-01-10 08:01:30 -08:00
filemap.c [PATCH] fadvise(): write commands 2006-03-24 07:33:25 -08:00
filemap.h [PATCH] xip: reduce code duplication 2005-06-24 00:06:41 -07:00
fremap.c VM: add common helper function to create the page tables 2005-11-29 14:03:14 -08:00
highmem.c [PATCH] Block queue IO tracing support (blktrace) as of 2006-03-23 2006-03-23 20:00:26 +01:00
hugetlb.c [PATCH] mm: hugetlb alloc_fresh_huge_page bogus node loop fix 2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
internal.h [PATCH] remove set_page_count() outside mm/ 2006-03-22 07:54:02 -08:00
Kconfig [PATCH] page migration reorg 2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
madvise.c [PATCH] madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK 2006-02-14 16:09:34 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] page migration reorg 2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c [PATCH] memory hotadd: pgdat->node_present_pages fix 2006-03-09 19:47:38 -08:00
memory.c [PATCH] hugepage: Fix hugepage logic in free_pgtables() harder 2006-03-22 07:54:04 -08:00
mempolicy.c [PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache optimizations 2006-03-24 07:33:23 -08:00
mempool.c [PATCH] mm: kill kmem_cache_t usage 2006-03-22 07:53:58 -08:00
migrate.c [PATCH] page migration reorg 2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
mincore.c [PATCH] freepgt: sys_mincore ignore FIRST_USER_PGD_NR 2005-04-19 13:29:20 -07:00
mlock.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
mmap.c [PATCH] remove VM_DONTCOPY bogosities 2006-03-22 07:54:01 -08:00
mprotect.c [PATCH] Enable mprotect on huge pages 2006-03-22 07:54:03 -08:00
mremap.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
msync.c [PATCH] msync(): perform dirty page levelling 2006-03-24 07:33:26 -08:00
nommu.c [PATCH] mm: nommu use compound pages 2006-03-22 07:54:01 -08:00
oom_kill.c [PATCH] out_of_memory() locking fix 2006-03-02 08:33:07 -08:00
page_alloc.c [PATCH] cpusets: only wakeup kswapd for zones in the current cpuset 2006-03-24 07:33:22 -08:00
page_io.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
page-writeback.c [PATCH] set_page_dirty() return value fixes 2006-03-24 07:33:26 -08:00
pdflush.c [PATCH] Swap Migration V5: PF_SWAPWRITE to allow writing to swap 2006-01-08 20:12:41 -08:00
prio_tree.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
readahead.c [PATCH] ext3_readdir: use generic readahead 2006-03-23 07:38:09 -08:00
rmap.c [PATCH] mm: more CONFIG_DEBUG_VM 2006-03-22 07:54:02 -08:00
shmem.c [PATCH] shmem: inline to avoid warning 2006-03-22 07:54:02 -08:00
slab.c [PATCH] cpuset: memory_spread_slab drop useless PF_SPREAD_PAGE check 2006-03-24 07:33:24 -08:00
slob.c [PATCH] SLOB=y && SMP=y fix 2006-02-08 07:52:58 -08:00
sparse.c [PATCH] Change maxaligned_in_smp alignemnt macros to internodealigned_in_smp macros 2006-01-08 20:13:38 -08:00
swap_state.c [PATCH] page migration reorg 2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
swap.c [PATCH] mm: less atomic ops 2006-03-22 07:53:57 -08:00
swapfile.c [PATCH] swsusp: userland interface 2006-03-23 07:38:07 -08:00
thrash.c [PATCH] temporarily disable swap token on memory pressure 2005-11-28 14:42:25 -08:00
tiny-shmem.c [PATCH] do_truncate() call fix in tiny-shmem.c 2006-01-12 09:08:49 -08:00
truncate.c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
util.c [PATCH] slob: introduce mm/util.c for shared functions 2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00
vmalloc.c [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix warnings in vmalloc.c 2005-11-07 07:53:56 -08:00
vmscan.c [PATCH] page migration reorg 2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00