From 54848d73f9f254631303d6eab9b976855988b266 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wu Fengguang Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:21:19 -0600 Subject: writeback: charge leaked page dirties to active tasks It's a years long problem that a large number of short-lived dirtiers (eg. gcc instances in a fast kernel build) may starve long-run dirtiers (eg. dd) as well as pushing the dirty pages to the global hard limit. The solution is to charge the pages dirtied by the exited gcc to the other random dirtying tasks. It sounds not perfect, however should behave good enough in practice, seeing as that throttled tasks aren't actually running so those that are running are more likely to pick it up and get throttled, therefore promoting an equal spread. Randy: fix compile error: 'dirty_throttle_leaks' undeclared in exit.c Acked-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang --- kernel/exit.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/exit.c') diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index d0b7d98..d4aac24 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -1037,6 +1038,8 @@ NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code) validate_creds_for_do_exit(tsk); preempt_disable(); + if (tsk->nr_dirtied) + __this_cpu_add(dirty_throttle_leaks, tsk->nr_dirtied); exit_rcu(); /* causes final put_task_struct in finish_task_switch(). */ tsk->state = TASK_DEAD; -- cgit v1.1