writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages()

Note in the bdi_writeback structure whenever a task ends up sleeping
waiting for progress. We can use that information in the lower layers
to increase the priority of writes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
index c357f27..dc5f76d 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ struct bdi_writeback {
        struct list_head work_list;
        struct delayed_work dwork;      /* work item used for writeback */
 
+       unsigned long dirty_sleep;      /* last wait */
+
        struct list_head bdi_node;      /* anchored at bdi->wb_list */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK

diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 8fde443..3bfed5a 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ static int wb_init(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
        spin_lock_init(&wb->work_lock);
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wb->work_list);
        INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&wb->dwork, wb_workfn);
+       wb->dirty_sleep = jiffies;
 
        wb->congested = wb_congested_get_create(bdi, blkcg_id, gfp);
        if (!wb->congested)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 439cc63..52e2f8e 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1778,6 +1778,7 @@ pause:
                                          pause,
                                          start_time);
                __set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE);
+               wb->dirty_sleep = now;
                io_schedule_timeout(pause);
 
                current->dirty_paused_when = now + pause;