On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:42:19AM +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
> yeah, now the picture becomes more clear
> ...
> net.core.warnings = 0
> [ ok ]
> ick: pause : -717
> ick : min_pause : -177
> ick : max_pause : -717
> ick: pages_dirtied : 14
>
> ick: task_ratelimit: 0
Great and thanks! So it's the max pause calculation went wrong.
Would help you try the below patch?
From 5420b9bbe42dd0a366d7615e9f3d3724cee725c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang...@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:53:26 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix bdi max pause calculation
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang...@intel.com>
---
mm/page-writeback.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 3f0c895..241a746 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1104,11 +1104,11 @@ static unsigned long dirty_poll_interval(unsigned long
dirty,
return 1;
}
-static long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
- unsigned long bdi_dirty)
+static unsigned long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
+ unsigned long bdi_dirty)
{
- long bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
- long t;
+ unsigned long bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
+ unsigned long t;
/*
* Limit pause time for small memory systems. If sleeping for too long
@@ -1120,7 +1120,7 @@ static long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
t = bdi_dirty / (1 + bw / roundup_pow_of_two(1 + HZ / 8));
t++;
- return min_t(long, t, MAX_PAUSE);
+ return min_t(unsigned long, t, MAX_PAUSE);
}
static long bdi_min_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
--
1.7.10.4
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