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writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling
While cgroup writeback support now connects memcg and blkcg so that writeback IOs are properly attributed and controlled, the IO back pressure propagation mechanism implemented in balance_dirty_pages() and its subroutines wasn't aware of cgroup writeback. Processes belonging to a memcg may have access to only subset of total memory available in the system and not factoring this into dirty throttling rendered it completely ineffective for processes under memcg limits and memcg ended up building a separate ad-hoc degenerate mechanism directly into vmscan code to limit page dirtying. The previous patches updated balance_dirty_pages() and its subroutines so that they can deal with multiple wb_domain's (writeback domains) and defined per-memcg wb_domain. Processes belonging to a non-root memcg are bound to two wb_domains, global wb_domain and memcg wb_domain, and should be throttled according to IO pressures from both domains. This patch updates dirty throttling code so that it repeats similar calculations for the two domains - the differences between the two are few and minor - and applies the lower of the two sets of resulting constraints. wb_over_bg_thresh(), which controls when background writeback terminates, is also updated to consider both global and memcg wb_domains. It returns true if dirty is over bg_thresh for either domain. This makes the dirty throttling mechanism operational for memcg domains including writeback-bandwidth-proportional dirty page distribution inside them but the ad-hoc memcg throttling mechanism in vmscan is still in place. The next patch will rip it out. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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