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author | Fengguang Wu <[email protected]> | 2012-03-21 16:34:09 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2012-03-21 17:54:58 -0700 |
commit | 47a133339c332f9f8e155c70f5da401aded69948 (patch) | |
tree | 94f8fb512ebe8e29d0a3f11a04b04004afd4ab59 /tools/perf/scripts/python/sctop.py | |
parent | 1010bb1b80edb0713415dfe1f97114d320f58c4f (diff) |
mm: use global_dirty_limit in throttle_vm_writeout()
When starting a memory hog task, a desktop box w/o swap is found to go
unresponsive for a long time. It's solely caused by lots of congestion
waits in throttle_vm_writeout():
gnome-system-mo-4201 553.073384: congestion_wait: throttle_vm_writeout+0x70/0x7f shrink_mem_cgroup_zone+0x48f/0x4a1
gnome-system-mo-4201 553.073386: writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=100000
gtali-4237 553.080377: congestion_wait: throttle_vm_writeout+0x70/0x7f shrink_mem_cgroup_zone+0x48f/0x4a1
gtali-4237 553.080378: writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=100000
Xorg-3483 553.103375: congestion_wait: throttle_vm_writeout+0x70/0x7f shrink_mem_cgroup_zone+0x48f/0x4a1
Xorg-3483 553.103377: writeback_congestion_wait: usec_timeout=100000 usec_delayed=100000
The root cause is, the dirty threshold is knocked down a lot by the memory
hog task. Fixed by using global_dirty_limit which decreases gradually on
such events and can guarantee we stay above (the also decreasing) nr_dirty
in the progress of following down to the new dirty threshold.
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Thelen <[email protected]>
Cc: Ying Han <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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