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mm: dirty balancing for tasks

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Based on ideas of Andrew:
  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=102912915020543&w=2

Scale the bdi dirty limit inversly with the tasks dirty rate.
This makes heavy writers have a lower dirty limit than the occasional writer.

Andrea proposed something similar:
  http://lwn.net/Articles/152277/

The main disadvantage to his patch is that he uses an unrelated quantity to
measure time, which leaves him with a workload dependant tunable. Other than
that the two approaches appear quite similar.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-16 23:25:50 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 04fbfdc14e
commit 3e26c149c3
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@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups;
[PIDTYPE_PGID] = INIT_PID_LINK(PIDTYPE_PGID), \
[PIDTYPE_SID] = INIT_PID_LINK(PIDTYPE_SID), \
}, \
.dirties = INIT_PROP_LOCAL_SINGLE(dirties), \
INIT_TRACE_IRQFLAGS \
INIT_LOCKDEP \
}