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nfs: remove congestion_end()
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:25:41 +0000 (23:25 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:42:44 +0000 (08:42 -0700)
commitc4dc4beed23827e155d7cbc2a1ffa3949eddd194
treeb7f115c159fe26b90b7e5b7d5dcf2f9318b69bf1
parent1f7d6668c29b1dfa307a44844f9bb38356fc989b
nfs: remove congestion_end()

These patches aim to improve balance_dirty_pages() and directly address three
issues:
  1) inter device starvation
  2) stacked device deadlocks
  3) inter process starvation

1 and 2 are a direct result from removing the global dirty limit and using
per device dirty limits. By giving each device its own dirty limit is will
no longer starve another device, and the cyclic dependancy on the dirty limit
is broken.

In order to efficiently distribute the dirty limit across the independant
devices a floating proportion is used, this will allocate a share of the total
limit proportional to the device's recent activity.

3 is done by also scaling the dirty limit proportional to the current task's
recent dirty rate.

This patch:

nfs: remove congestion_end().  It's redundant, clear_bdi_congested() already
wakes the waiters.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/nfs/write.c
include/linux/backing-dev.h
mm/backing-dev.c