On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 20:40 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> As for the highmem part, that was due to buffer cache, and unfortunately
> that is still true. Although maybe we can do something smart with the
> per-bdi stuff.

Something like this ought to do I guess. Although my
mapping_is_buffercache() is the ugliest thing. I'm sure that can be done
better.

Uncompiled, untested

Not-Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/page-writeback.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -280,27 +280,28 @@ static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_m
 #endif
 }
 
-static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void)
+static unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(int highmem)
 {
        unsigned long x;
 
        x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES)
                + global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE)
                + global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE);
-       x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
+       if (!highmem)
+               x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
        return x + 1;   /* Ensure that we never return 0 */
 }
 
 static void
 get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long *pdirty, long *pbdi_dirty,
-                struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
+                struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int highmem)
 {
        int background_ratio;           /* Percentages */
        int dirty_ratio;
        int unmapped_ratio;
        long background;
        long dirty;
-       unsigned long available_memory = determine_dirtyable_memory();
+       unsigned long available_memory = determine_dirtyable_memory(highmem);
        struct task_struct *tsk;
 
        unmapped_ratio = 100 - ((global_page_state(NR_FILE_MAPPED) +
@@ -346,6 +347,16 @@ get_dirty_limits(long *pbackground, long
        }
 }
 
+static inline int mapping_is_buffercache(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+       struct super_block *sb = mapping->host->i_sb;
+
+       if (sb && sb->s_bdev && sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping != mapping)
+               return 0;
+
+       return 1;
+}
+
 /*
  * balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
  * data.  It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
@@ -364,6 +375,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a
        unsigned long write_chunk = sync_writeback_pages();
 
        struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
+       int highmem = !mapping_is_buffercache(mapping);
 
        for (;;) {
                struct writeback_control wbc = {
@@ -375,7 +387,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a
                };
 
                get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh,
-                               &bdi_thresh, bdi);
+                               &bdi_thresh, bdi, highmem);
                bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
                bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
                if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback <= bdi_thresh)
@@ -394,7 +406,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a
                        writeback_inodes(&wbc);
                        pages_written += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write;
                        get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh,
-                                      &bdi_thresh, bdi);
+                                      &bdi_thresh, bdi, highmem);
                }
 
                /*
@@ -503,7 +515,7 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask
        long dirty_thresh;
 
         for ( ; ; ) {
-               get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL, NULL);
+               get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL, NULL, 
1);
 
                 /*
                  * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page
@@ -546,7 +558,7 @@ static void background_writeout(unsigned
                long background_thresh;
                long dirty_thresh;
 
-               get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL, NULL);
+               get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL, NULL, 
1);
                if (global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
                        global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) < background_thresh
                                && min_pages <= 0)



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