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>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index e5b6b11..4ac077f 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -243,6 +243,29 @@ static void task_dirty_limit(struct task_struct *tsk, long *pdirty)
 }
 
 /*
+ *
+ */
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(bdi_lock);
+static unsigned int bdi_min_ratio;
+
+int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio)
+{
+	int ret = 0;
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&bdi_lock, flags);
+	min_ratio -= bdi->min_ratio;
+	if (bdi_min_ratio + min_ratio < 100) {
+		bdi_min_ratio += min_ratio;
+		bdi->min_ratio += min_ratio;
+	} else
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bdi_lock, flags);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/*
  * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
  * thresholds.
  *
@@ -330,7 +353,7 @@ get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long *pdirty, long *pbdi_dirty,
 	*pdirty = dirty;
 
 	if (bdi) {
-		u64 bdi_dirty = dirty;
+		u64 bdi_dirty;
 		long numerator, denominator;
 
 		/*
@@ -338,8 +361,10 @@ get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long *pdirty, long *pbdi_dirty,
 		 */
 		bdi_writeout_fraction(bdi, &numerator, &denominator);
 
+		bdi_dirty = (dirty * (100 - bdi_min_ratio)) / 100;
 		bdi_dirty *= numerator;
 		do_div(bdi_dirty, denominator);
+		bdi_dirty += (dirty * bdi->min_ratio) / 100;
 
 		*pbdi_dirty = bdi_dirty;
 		clip_bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty, pbdi_dirty);