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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2007-10-16 23:25:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-17 08:42:45 -0700 |
| commit | 3e26c149c358529b1605f8959341d34bc4b880a3 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d173b1753b86bcf03a8591e2509e3162234447c /kernel/fork.c | |
| parent | 04fbfdc14e5f48463820d6b9807daa5e9c92c51f (diff) | |
| download | lwn-3e26c149c358529b1605f8959341d34bc4b880a3.tar.gz lwn-3e26c149c358529b1605f8959341d34bc4b880a3.zip | |
mm: dirty balancing for tasks
Based on ideas of Andrew:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=102912915020543&w=2
Scale the bdi dirty limit inversly with the tasks dirty rate.
This makes heavy writers have a lower dirty limit than the occasional writer.
Andrea proposed something similar:
http://lwn.net/Articles/152277/
The main disadvantage to his patch is that he uses an unrelated quantity to
measure time, which leaves him with a workload dependant tunable. Other than
that the two approaches appear quite similar.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 3fc3c1383912..163325af8179 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache *mm_cachep; void free_task(struct task_struct *tsk) { + prop_local_destroy_single(&tsk->dirties); free_thread_info(tsk->stack); rt_mutex_debug_task_free(tsk); free_task_struct(tsk); @@ -163,6 +164,7 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig) { struct task_struct *tsk; struct thread_info *ti; + int err; prepare_to_copy(orig); @@ -178,6 +180,14 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig) *tsk = *orig; tsk->stack = ti; + + err = prop_local_init_single(&tsk->dirties); + if (err) { + free_thread_info(ti); + free_task_struct(tsk); + return NULL; + } + setup_thread_stack(tsk, orig); #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR |