Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753919Ab0H0BnT (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:43:19 -0400 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]:1316 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753762Ab0H0BnQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:43:16 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.56,277,1280732400"; d="scan'208";a="317686029" Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:42:54 +0800 From: Wu Fengguang To: Johannes Weiner Cc: Mel Gorman , Minchan Kim , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton , Christian Ehrhardt , Jan Kara , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Li Shaohua , Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] writeback: Do not congestion sleep when there are no congested BDIs Message-ID: <20100827014254.GD7353@localhost> References: <1282835656-5638-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1282835656-5638-4-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <20100826173843.GD6873@barrios-desktop> <20100826174245.GJ20944@csn.ul.ie> <20100826181735.GB6805@cmpxchg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100826181735.GB6805@cmpxchg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3026 Lines: 65 On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 02:17:35AM +0800, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 06:42:45PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 02:38:43AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 04:14:16PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > > If congestion_wait() is called with no BDIs congested, the caller will > > > > sleep for the full timeout and this is an unnecessary sleep. This patch > > > > checks if there are BDIs congested. If so, it goes to sleep as normal. > > > > If not, it calls cond_resched() to ensure the caller is not hogging the > > > > CPU longer than its quota but otherwise will not sleep. > > > > > > > > This is aimed at reducing some of the major desktop stalls reported during > > > > IO. For example, while kswapd is operating, it calls congestion_wait() > > > > but it could just have been reclaiming clean page cache pages with no > > > > congestion. Without this patch, it would sleep for a full timeout but after > > > > this patch, it'll just call schedule() if it has been on the CPU too long. > > > > Similar logic applies to direct reclaimers that are not making enough > > > > progress. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman > > > > --- > > > > mm/backing-dev.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------ > > > > 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > > > > > > > diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c > > > > index a49167f..6abe860 100644 > > > > --- a/mm/backing-dev.c > > > > +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c > > > > > > Function's decripton should be changed since we don't wait next write any more. > > > > > > > My bad. I need to check that "next write" thing. It doesn't appear to be > > happening but maybe that side of things just broke somewhere in the > > distant past. I lack context of how this is meant to work so maybe > > someone will educate me. > > On every retired io request the congestion state on the bdi is checked > and the congestion waitqueue woken up. > > So without congestion, we still only wait until the next write > retires, but without any IO, we sleep the full timeout. > > Check __freed_requests() in block/blk-core.c. congestion_wait() is tightly related with pageout() and writeback, however it may have some intention for the no-IO case as well. - if write congested, maybe we are doing too much pageout(), so wait. it might also reduce some get_request_wait() stalls (the normal way is to explicitly check for congestion before doing write out). - if any write completes, it may free some PG_reclaim pages, so proceed. (when not congested) - if no IO at all, the 100ms sleep might still prevent a page reclaimer from stealing lots of slices from a busy computing program that involves no page allocation at all. Thanks, Fengguang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/