From eb608e3a344b3af21300360fcf868f8b4e808a8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 18:59:11 +0200 Subject: block: Convert BDI proportion calculations to flexible proportions Convert calculations of proportion of writeback each bdi does to new flexible proportion code. That allows us to use aging period of fixed wallclock time which gives better proportion estimates given the hugely varying throughput of different devices. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu --- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/backing-dev.h') diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h index b1038bd686ac..489de625cd25 100644 --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ #include #include -#include +#include #include #include #include @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ struct backing_dev_info { unsigned long dirty_ratelimit; unsigned long balanced_dirty_ratelimit; - struct prop_local_percpu completions; + struct fprop_local_percpu completions; int dirty_exceeded; unsigned int min_ratio; -- cgit v1.2.3 From 3965c9ae47d64aadf6f13b6fcd37767b83c0689a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wanpeng Li Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:41:52 -0700 Subject: mm: prepare for removal of obsolete /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads Since per-BDI flusher threads were introduced in 2.6, the pdflush mechanism is not used any more. But the old interface exported through /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads still exists and is obviously useless. For back-compatibility, printk warning information and return 2 to notify the users that the interface is removed. Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Cc: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/backing-dev.h') diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h index 489de625cd25..c97c6b9cd38e 100644 --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include struct page; struct device; @@ -304,6 +305,8 @@ void clear_bdi_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int sync); void set_bdi_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int sync); long congestion_wait(int sync, long timeout); long wait_iff_congested(struct zone *zone, int sync, long timeout); +int pdflush_proc_obsolete(struct ctl_table *table, int write, + void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); static inline bool bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) { -- cgit v1.2.3 From f0cd2dbb6cf387c11f87265462e370bb5469299e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Artem Bityutskiy Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:11:59 +0300 Subject: vfs: kill write_super and sync_supers Finally we can kill the 'sync_supers' kernel thread along with the '->write_super()' superblock operation because all the users are gone. Now every file-system is supposed to self-manage own superblock and its dirty state. The nice thing about killing this thread is that it improves power management. Indeed, 'sync_supers' is a source of monotonic system wake-ups - it woke up every 5 seconds no matter what - even if there were no dirty superblocks and even if there were no file-systems using this service (e.g., btrfs and journalled ext4 do not need it). So it was wasting power most of the time. And because the thread was in the core of the kernel, all systems had to have it. So I am quite happy to make it go away. Interestingly, this thread is a left-over from the pdflush kernel thread which was a self-forking kernel thread responsible for all the write-back in old Linux kernels. It was turned into per-block device BDI threads, and 'sync_supers' was a left-over. Thus, R.I.P, pdflush as well. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/backing-dev.h') diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h index c97c6b9cd38e..2a9a9abc9126 100644 --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h @@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, long nr_pages, void bdi_start_background_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi); int bdi_writeback_thread(void *data); int bdi_has_dirty_io(struct backing_dev_info *bdi); -void bdi_arm_supers_timer(void); void bdi_wakeup_thread_delayed(struct backing_dev_info *bdi); void bdi_lock_two(struct bdi_writeback *wb1, struct bdi_writeback *wb2); -- cgit v1.2.3