linux_dsm_epyc7002/include
Jan Kara f446daaea9 mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging
We try to avoid livelocks of writeback when some steadily creates dirty
pages in a mapping we are writing out.  For memory-cleaning writeback,
using nr_to_write works reasonably well but we cannot really use it for
data integrity writeback.  This patch tries to solve the problem.

The idea is simple: Tag all pages that should be written back with a
special tag (TOWRITE) in the radix tree.  This can be done rather quickly
and thus livelocks should not happen in practice.  Then we start doing the
hard work of locking pages and sending them to disk only for those pages
that have TOWRITE tag set.

Note: Adding new radix tree tag grows radix tree node from 288 to 296
bytes for 32-bit archs and from 552 to 560 bytes for 64-bit archs.
However, the number of slab/slub items per page remains the same (13 and 7
respectively).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09 20:44:59 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'acpica' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 2010-08-07 17:08:30 -07:00
asm-generic topology: alternate fix for ia64 tiger_defconfig build breakage 2010-08-09 20:44:57 -07:00
crypto crypto: skcipher - Add ablkcipher_walk interfaces 2010-05-19 14:13:07 +10:00
drm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2010-08-07 12:42:58 -07:00
keys DNS: Separate out CIFS DNS Resolver code 2010-08-05 17:17:51 +00:00
linux mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging 2010-08-09 20:44:59 -07:00
math-emu math-emu: correct test for downshifting fraction in _FP_FROM_INT() 2010-07-20 18:45:14 -07:00
media V4L/DVB: dib0700: break keytable into NEC and RC-5 variants 2010-08-02 16:43:49 -03:00
mtd
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2010-08-04 11:47:58 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: use struct resource for PCMCIA devices, part 2 2010-08-03 09:04:16 +02:00
rdma IB: Rename RAW_ETY to RAW_ETHERTYPE 2010-08-04 10:44:19 -07:00
rxrpc net: use __packed annotation 2010-06-03 03:21:52 -07:00
scsi [SCSI] implement runtime Power Management 2010-07-28 09:07:50 -05:00
sound Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 2010-08-07 17:07:31 -07:00
trace Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 2010-08-07 13:03:53 -07:00
video fbdev: move FBIO_WAITFORVSYNC to linux/fb.h 2010-05-25 08:07:09 -07:00
xen x86: Call HVMOP_pagetable_dying on exit_mmap. 2010-07-26 23:13:26 -07:00
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