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mm: vmscan: kick flushers when we encounter dirty pages on the LRU
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Fri, 24 Feb 2017 22:56:14 +0000 (14:56 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 25 Feb 2017 01:46:54 +0000 (17:46 -0800)
commit72e98d7f8732891401b5d234866f8ae15afa0d28
tree49adbabdd15f36745baf26091700e1f5160bf499
parentd252425eeac3ad129d5e7784e8c8b1499b7cd1c4
mm: vmscan: kick flushers when we encounter dirty pages on the LRU

Memory pressure can put dirty pages at the end of the LRU without
anybody running into dirty limits.  Don't start writing individual pages
from kswapd while the flushers might be asleep.

Unlike the old direct reclaim flusher wakeup (removed in the next patch)
that flushes the number of pages just scanned, this patch wakes the
flushers for all outstanding dirty pages.  That seemed to perform better
in a synthetic test that pushes dirty pages to the end of the LRU and
into reclaim, because we know LRU aging outstrips writeback already, and
this way we give younger dirty pages a headstart rather than wait until
reclaim runs into them as well.  It also means less plugging and risk of
exhausting the struct request pool from reclaim.

There is a concern that this will cause temporary files that used to get
dirtied and truncated before writeback to now get written to disk under
memory pressure.  If this turns out to be a real problem, we'll have to
revisit this and tame the reclaim flusher wakeups.

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: mention dirty expiration as a condition]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170126174739.GA30636@cmpxchg.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123181641.23938-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/writeback.h
include/trace/events/writeback.h
mm/vmscan.c