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Kemeng Shi fabd2e42bc mm: correct calculation of wb's bg_thresh in cgroup domain
wb_calc_thresh() is calculating wb's share of bg_thresh in the global
domain.  However in case of cgroup writeback this is not the right
thing to do.  Consider the following domain hierarchy:

                global domain (> 20G)
                /                 \
          cgroup1 (10G)     cgroup2 (10G)
                |                 |
bdi            wb1               wb2

and assume wb1 and wb2 have the same bandwidth and the background
threshold is set at 10%.  The bg_thresh of cgroup1 and cgroup2 is going
to be 1G.  Now because wb_calc_thresh(mdtc->wb, mdtc->bg_thresh)
calculates per-wb threshold in the global domain as (wb bandwidth) /
(domain bandwidth) it returns bg_thresh for wb1 as 0.5G although it has
nobody to compete against in cgroup1.

Fix the problem by calculating wb's share of bg_thresh in the cgroup
domain.

Test as following:
/* make it easier to observe the issue */
echo 300000 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs
echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs

/* run fio in wb1 */
cd /sys/fs/cgroup
echo "+memory +io" > cgroup.subtree_control
mkdir group1
cd group1
echo 10G > memory.high
echo 10G > memory.max
echo $$ > cgroup.procs
mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/vdb
mount /dev/vdb /bdi1/
fio -name test -filename=/bdi1/file -size=600M -ioengine=libaio -bs=4K \
-iodepth=1 -rw=write -direct=0 --time_based -runtime=600 -invalidate=0

/* run fio in wb2 with a new shell */
cd /sys/fs/cgroup
mkdir group2
cd group2
echo 10G > memory.high
echo 10G > memory.max
echo $$ > cgroup.procs
mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/vdc
mount /dev/vdc /bdi2/
fio -name test -filename=/bdi2/file -size=600M -ioengine=libaio -bs=4K \
-iodepth=1 -rw=write -direct=0 --time_based -runtime=600 -invalidate=0

Before fix, the wrttien pages of wb1 and wb2 reported from
toos/writeback/wb_monitor.py keep growing. After fix, rare written pages
are accumulated.
There is no obvious change in fio result.

[jack@suse.cz: changelog rewording]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240425131724.36778-3-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 74d3694433 ("writeback: Fix performance regression in wb_over_bg_thresh()")
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Howard Cochran <hcochran@kernelspring.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
History 2024-05-05 17:53:52 -07:00
arch mm/arm64: override clear_young_dirty_ptes() batch helper 2024-05-05 17:53:42 -07:00
block block-6.9-20240412 2024-04-12 10:22:33 -07:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression that broke iwd as well as a divide by 2024-03-25 10:48:23 -07:00
Documentation mm/khugepaged: replace page_mapcount() check by folio_likely_mapped_shared() 2024-05-05 17:53:50 -07:00
drivers mm: pass VMA instead of MM to follow_pte() 2024-05-05 17:53:27 -07:00
fs f2fs: convert f2fs_clear_page_cache_dirty_tag to use a folio 2024-05-05 17:53:47 -07:00
include writeback: support retrieving per group debug writeback stats of bdi 2024-05-05 17:53:51 -07:00
init mm: introduce slabobj_ext to support slab object extensions 2024-04-25 20:55:51 -07:00
io_uring mm: switch mm->get_unmapped_area() to a flag 2024-04-25 20:56:25 -07:00
ipc sysctl changes for v6.9-rc1 2024-03-18 14:59:13 -07:00
kernel mm/treewide: rename CONFIG_HAVE_FAST_GUP to CONFIG_HAVE_GUP_FAST 2024-04-25 20:56:41 -07:00
lib xarray: inline xas_descend to improve performance 2024-05-05 17:53:38 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm: correct calculation of wb's bg_thresh in cgroup domain 2024-05-05 17:53:52 -07:00
net mm: change inlined allocation helpers to account at the call site 2024-04-25 20:55:59 -07:00
rust rust: add a rust helper for krealloc() 2024-04-25 20:55:55 -07:00
samples Tracing updates for 6.9: 2024-03-18 15:11:44 -07:00
scripts lib: add allocation tagging support for memory allocation profiling 2024-04-25 20:55:52 -07:00
security mm: init_mlocked_on_free_v3 2024-04-25 20:56:29 -07:00
sound fix missing vmalloc.h includes 2024-04-25 20:55:49 -07:00
tools writeback: add wb_monitor.py script to monitor writeback info on bdi 2024-05-05 17:53:51 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v6.8 2024-01-18 17:57:07 -08:00
virt mm: pass VMA instead of MM to follow_pte() 2024-05-05 17:53:27 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.7-rc4's for_each macro list 2023-12-08 23:54:38 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig file for basic formatting 2023-12-28 16:22:47 +09:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: create a list of all built DTB files 2024-02-19 18:20:39 +09:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: update Naoya Horiguchi's email address 2024-04-16 15:39:51 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Drop Gustavo Pimentel as PCI DWC Maintainer 2024-03-27 13:41:02 -05:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add entries for code tagging and memory allocation profiling 2024-04-25 20:55:58 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.9-rc4 2024-04-14 13:38:39 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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