Wu Fengguang c42843f2f0 writeback: introduce smoothed global dirty limit ... The start of a heavy weight application (ie. KVM) may instantly knock down determine_dirtyable_memory() if the swap is not enabled or full. global_dirty_limits() and bdi_dirty_limit() will in turn get global/bdi dirty thresholds that are _much_ lower than the global/bdi dirty pages. balance_dirty_pages() will then heavily throttle all dirtiers including the light ones, until the dirty pages drop below the new dirty thresholds. During this _deep_ dirty-exceeded state, the system may appear rather unresponsive to the users. About "deep" dirty-exceeded: task_dirty_limit() assigns 1/8 lower dirty threshold to heavy dirtiers than light ones, and the dirty pages will be throttled around the heavy dirtiers' dirty threshold and reasonably below the light dirtiers' dirty threshold. In this state, only the heavy dirtiers will be throttled and the dirty pages are carefully controlled to not exceed the light dirtiers' dirty threshold. However if the threshold itself suddenly drops below the number of dirty pages, the light dirtiers will get heavily throttled. So introduce global_dirty_limit for tracking the global dirty threshold with policies - follow downwards slowly - follow up in one shot global_dirty_limit can effectively mask out the impact of sudden drop of dirtyable memory. It will be used in the next patch for two new type of dirty limits. Note that the new dirty limits are not going to avoid throttling the light dirtiers, but could limit their sleep time to 200ms. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>		2011-07-09 22:09:02 -07:00
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backing-dev.c	writeback: show bdi write bandwidth in debugfs	2011-07-09 22:09:02 -07:00
bootmem.c	crash_dump: export is_kdump_kernel to modules, consolidate elfcorehdr_addr, setup_elfcorehdr and saved_max_pfn	2011-03-23 19:47:19 -07:00
bounce.c	bounce: call flush_dcache_page() after bounce_copy_vec()	2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
cleancache.c	mm: cleancache core ops functions and config	2011-05-26 10:01:36 -06:00
compaction.c	mm: compaction: minimise the time IRQs are disabled while isolating pages for migration	2011-03-22 17:44:05 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c	mm/dmapool.c: use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE in dma_pool_alloc()	2011-01-13 17:32:48 -08:00
fadvise.c	readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM	2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
failslab.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap.c	writeback: split inode_wb_list_lock into bdi_writeback.list_lock	2011-06-08 08:25:21 +08:00
filemap_xip.c	mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutex	2011-05-25 08:39:18 -07:00
fremap.c	mm: don't access vm_flags as 'int'	2011-05-26 09:20:31 -07:00
highmem.c	mm,x86: fix kmap_atomic_push vs ioremap_32.c	2010-10-27 18:03:05 -07:00
huge_memory.c	mm: thp: optimize memcg charge in khugepaged	2011-05-25 08:39:21 -07:00
hugetlb.c	mm: fix ENOSPC returned by handle_mm_fault()	2011-06-06 18:00:27 +09:00
hwpoison-inject.c	Fix common misspellings	2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
init-mm.c	mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t	2011-05-25 08:39:21 -07:00
internal.h	mm: nommu: sort mm->mmap list properly	2011-05-25 08:39:05 -07:00
Kconfig	mm: cleancache core ops functions and config	2011-05-26 10:01:36 -06:00
Kconfig.debug	mm: debug-pagealloc: fix kconfig dependency warning	2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
kmemcheck.c	kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
kmemleak-test.c	kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc	2011-01-27 18:31:51 +00:00
kmemleak.c	kmemleak: Do not return a pointer to an object that kmemleak did not get	2011-05-19 17:35:28 +01:00
ksm.c	oom: replace PF_OOM_ORIGIN with toggling oom_score_adj	2011-05-25 08:39:10 -07:00
maccess.c	maccess,probe_kernel: Make write/read src const void *	2011-05-25 19:56:23 -04:00
madvise.c	thp: khugepaged: make khugepaged aware about madvise	2011-01-13 17:32:47 -08:00
Makefile	mm: cleancache core ops functions and config	2011-05-26 10:01:36 -06:00
memblock.c	mm/memblock: properly handle overlaps and fix error path	2011-03-22 17:44:09 -07:00
memcontrol.c	memcg: add the pagefault count into memcg stats	2011-05-26 17:12:36 -07:00
memory-failure.c	vmscan: change shrinker API by passing shrink_control struct	2011-05-25 08:39:26 -07:00
memory.c	memcg: add the pagefault count into memcg stats	2011-05-26 17:12:36 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c	mm: remove dependency on CONFIG_FLATMEM from online_page()	2011-05-25 08:39:28 -07:00
mempolicy.c	mm: proc: move show_numa_map() to fs/proc/task_mmu.c	2011-05-25 08:39:34 -07:00
mempool.c
migrate.c	mm: use refcounts for page_lock_anon_vma()	2011-05-25 08:39:19 -07:00
mincore.c	thp: mincore transparent hugepage support	2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
mlock.c	mm: don't access vm_flags as 'int'	2011-05-26 09:20:31 -07:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c	mm: don't access vm_flags as 'int'	2011-05-26 09:20:31 -07:00
mmu_context.c	exit: fix oops in sync_mm_rss	2010-03-24 16:31:21 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c	thp: mmu_notifier_test_young	2011-01-13 17:32:46 -08:00
mmzone.c	mm: page allocator: adjust the per-cpu counter threshold when memory is low	2011-01-13 17:32:31 -08:00
mprotect.c	thp: mprotect: transparent huge page support	2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
mremap.c	mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutex	2011-05-25 08:39:18 -07:00
msync.c	sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions	2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
nobootmem.c	memblock/nobootmem: remove unneeded code from alloc_bootmem_node_high()	2011-05-25 08:39:31 -07:00
nommu.c	nommu: add page alignment to mmap	2011-05-25 08:39:38 -07:00
oom_kill.c	oom: replace PF_OOM_ORIGIN with toggling oom_score_adj	2011-05-25 08:39:10 -07:00
page-writeback.c	writeback: introduce smoothed global dirty limit	2011-07-09 22:09:02 -07:00
page_alloc.c	Revert "mm: fail GFP_DMA allocations when ZONE_DMA is not configured"	2011-06-02 06:11:24 +09:00
page_cgroup.c	memcg: move page-freeing code out of lock	2011-05-26 17:12:35 -07:00
page_io.c	block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG	2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
page_isolation.c	mm: page_isolation: codeclean fix comment and rm unneeded val init	2010-10-26 16:52:11 -07:00
pagewalk.c	pagewalk: only split huge pages when necessary	2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
percpu-km.c	percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator	2010-10-02 10:28:42 +03:00
percpu-vm.c	mm: remove gfp mask from pcpu_get_vm_areas	2011-01-13 17:32:34 -08:00
percpu.c	Merge branch 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu	2011-05-24 11:53:42 -07:00
pgtable-generic.c	mm/pgtable-generic.c: fix CONFIG_SWAP=n build	2011-01-26 10:49:58 +10:00
prio_tree.c	sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usage	2011-05-20 12:50:29 -07:00
quicklist.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
readahead.c	readahead: readahead page allocations are OK to fail	2011-05-25 08:39:25 -07:00
rmap.c	writeback: split inode_wb_list_lock into bdi_writeback.list_lock	2011-06-08 08:25:21 +08:00
shmem.c	tmpfs: fix race between truncate and writepage	2011-05-28 16:09:26 -07:00
slab.c	sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usage	2011-05-20 12:50:29 -07:00
slob.c	mm: Remove support for kmem_cache_name()	2011-01-23 21:00:05 +02:00
slub.c	slub: remove no-longer used 'unlock_out' label	2011-05-25 18:06:54 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c	tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos	2010-11-01 15:38:34 -04:00
sparse.c	Fix common misspellings	2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
swap.c	mm: batch activate_page() to reduce lock contention	2011-05-25 08:39:37 -07:00
swap_state.c	block: remove per-queue plugging	2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
swapfile.c	oom: replace PF_OOM_ORIGIN with toggling oom_score_adj	2011-05-25 08:39:10 -07:00
thrash.c
truncate.c	mm/fs: add hooks to support cleancache	2011-05-26 10:01:43 -06:00
util.c	mm: nommu: sort mm->mmap list properly	2011-05-25 08:39:05 -07:00
vmalloc.c	Merge branch 'upstream/tidy-xen-mmu-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen	2011-05-26 19:01:15 -07:00
vmscan.c	memcg: rename mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages() to mem_cgroup_zone_nr_lru_pages()	2011-05-26 17:12:35 -07:00
vmstat.c	mm, mem-hotplug: update pcp->stat_threshold when memory hotplug occur	2011-05-25 08:39:09 -07:00