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mm/page-writeback: highmem_is_dirtyable option

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Add vm.highmem_is_dirtyable toggle

A 32 bit machine with HIGHMEM64 enabled running DCC has an MMAPed file of
approximately 2Gb size which contains a hash format that is written
randomly by the dbclean process.  On 2.6.16 this process took a few
minutes.  With lowmem only accounting of dirty ratios, this takes about 12
hours of 100% disk IO, all random writes.

Include a toggle in /proc/sys/vm/highmem_is_dirtyable which can be set to 1 to
add the highmem back to the total available memory count.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix the CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y build]
Signed-off-by: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Ethan Solomita <solo@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Bron Gondwana
2008-02-04 22:29:20 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3dfa5721f1
commit 195cf453d2
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@ -1315,6 +1315,21 @@ for writeout by the pdflush daemons. It is expressed in 100'ths of a second.
Data which has been dirty in-memory for longer than this interval will be
written out next time a pdflush daemon wakes up.
highmem_is_dirtyable
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Only present if CONFIG_HIGHMEM is set.
This defaults to 0 (false), meaning that the ratios set above are calculated
as a percentage of lowmem only. This protects against excessive scanning
in page reclaim, swapping and general VM distress.
Setting this to 1 can be useful on 32 bit machines where you want to make
random changes within an MMAPed file that is larger than your available
lowmem without causing large quantities of random IO. Is is safe if the
behavior of all programs running on the machine is known and memory will
not be otherwise stressed.
legacy_va_layout
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