Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux

* 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_work
  writeback: send work item to queue_io, move_expired_inodes
  writeback: trace event balance_dirty_pages
  writeback: trace event bdi_dirty_ratelimit
  writeback: fix ppc compile warnings on do_div(long long, unsigned long)
  writeback: per-bdi background threshold
  writeback: dirty position control - bdi reserve area
  writeback: control dirty pause time
  writeback: limit max dirty pause time
  writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages()
  writeback: per task dirty rate limit
  writeback: stabilize bdi->dirty_ratelimit
  writeback: dirty rate control
  writeback: add bg_threshold parameter to __bdi_update_bandwidth()
  writeback: dirty position control
  writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pages

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
index 3b2f9cb82986..b1038bd686ac 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ typedef int (congested_fn)(void *, int);
 enum bdi_stat_item {
 	BDI_RECLAIMABLE,
 	BDI_WRITEBACK,
+	BDI_DIRTIED,
 	BDI_WRITTEN,
 	NR_BDI_STAT_ITEMS
 };
@@ -74,10 +75,20 @@ struct backing_dev_info {
 	struct percpu_counter bdi_stat[NR_BDI_STAT_ITEMS];
 
 	unsigned long bw_time_stamp;	/* last time write bw is updated */
+	unsigned long dirtied_stamp;
 	unsigned long written_stamp;	/* pages written at bw_time_stamp */
 	unsigned long write_bandwidth;	/* the estimated write bandwidth */
 	unsigned long avg_write_bandwidth; /* further smoothed write bw */
 
+	/*
+	 * The base dirty throttle rate, re-calculated on every 200ms.
+	 * All the bdi tasks' dirty rate will be curbed under it.
+	 * @dirty_ratelimit tracks the estimated @balanced_dirty_ratelimit
+	 * in small steps and is much more smooth/stable than the latter.
+	 */
+	unsigned long dirty_ratelimit;
+	unsigned long balanced_dirty_ratelimit;
+
 	struct prop_local_percpu completions;
 	int dirty_exceeded;
 
@@ -107,7 +118,8 @@ int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *parent,
 int bdi_register_dev(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, dev_t dev);
 void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
 int bdi_setup_and_register(struct backing_dev_info *, char *, unsigned int);
-void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, long nr_pages);
+void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, long nr_pages,
+			enum wb_reason reason);
 void bdi_start_background_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
 int bdi_writeback_thread(void *data);
 int bdi_has_dirty_io(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);