mm: bdi: allow setting a minimum for the bdi dirty limit

Under normal circumstances each device is given a part of the total write-back
cache that relates to its current avg writeout speed in relation to the other
devices.

min_ratio - allows one to assign a minimum portion of the write-back cache to
a particular device.  This is useful in situations where you might want to
provide a minimum QoS.  (One request for this feature came from flash based
storage people who wanted to avoid writing out at all costs - they of course
needed some pdflush hacks as well)

max_ratio - allows one to assign a maximum portion of the dirty limit to a
particular device.  This is useful in situations where you want to avoid one
device taking all or most of the write-back cache.  Eg.  an NFS mount that is
prone to get stuck, or a FUSE mount which you don't trust to play fair.

Add "min_ratio" to /sys/class/bdi.  This indicates the minimum percentage of
the global dirty threshold allocated to this bdi.

[mszeredi@suse.cz]

 - fix parsing in min_ratio_store()
 - document new sysfs attribute

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-30 00:54:35 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent b6f2fcbcfc
commit 189d3c4a94
4 changed files with 57 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -55,6 +55,24 @@ static inline unsigned long get_dirty(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int i)
BDI_SHOW(dirty_kb, K(get_dirty(bdi, 1)))
BDI_SHOW(bdi_dirty_kb, K(get_dirty(bdi, 2)))
static ssize_t min_ratio_store(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count)
{
struct backing_dev_info *bdi = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
char *end;
unsigned int ratio;
ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
ratio = simple_strtoul(buf, &end, 10);
if (*buf && (end[0] == '\0' || (end[0] == '\n' && end[1] == '\0'))) {
ret = bdi_set_min_ratio(bdi, ratio);
if (!ret)
ret = count;
}
return ret;
}
BDI_SHOW(min_ratio, bdi->min_ratio)
#define __ATTR_RW(attr) __ATTR(attr, 0644, attr##_show, attr##_store)
static struct device_attribute bdi_dev_attrs[] = {
@@ -63,6 +81,7 @@ static struct device_attribute bdi_dev_attrs[] = {
__ATTR_RO(writeback_kb),
__ATTR_RO(dirty_kb),
__ATTR_RO(bdi_dirty_kb),
__ATTR_RW(min_ratio),
__ATTR_NULL,
};
@@ -127,6 +146,8 @@ int bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
bdi->dev = NULL;
bdi->min_ratio = 0;
for (i = 0; i < NR_BDI_STAT_ITEMS; i++) {
err = percpu_counter_init_irq(&bdi->bdi_stat[i], 0);
if (err)