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authorStefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>2022-11-18 16:52:08 -0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-11-30 15:59:05 -0800
commit9c84819bd64ec15cb15d041c45ebe4725e9d4f3b (patch)
tree11b40453094f17dcc2da3ec6608aae2e340c2929 /mm/backing-dev.c
parent803c98050569850be5fd51a2025c67622de887d9 (diff)
mm: add /sys/class/bdi/<bdi>/min_bytes knob
bdi has two existing knobs to limit the amount of dirty memory: min_ratio and max_ratio. However the granularity of the knobs is limited and often it is more convenient to specify limits in terms of bytes. This change adds the min_bytes knob. It does not store the min_bytes value, instead it converts the max_bytes value to a ratio. The value is therefore more an approximation than an absolute value. It also maintains the sum over all the bdi min_ratio values stored in the variable bdi_min_ratio. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221119005215.3052436-14-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/backing-dev.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/backing-dev.c29
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 95d3229fc81f..3fab79061ade 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -199,6 +199,34 @@ static ssize_t max_ratio_store(struct device *dev,
}
BDI_SHOW(max_ratio, bdi->max_ratio / BDI_RATIO_SCALE)
+static ssize_t min_bytes_show(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr,
+ char *buf)
+{
+ struct backing_dev_info *bdi = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "%llu\n", bdi_get_min_bytes(bdi));
+}
+
+static ssize_t min_bytes_store(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+ struct backing_dev_info *bdi = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+ u64 bytes;
+ ssize_t ret;
+
+ ret = kstrtoull(buf, 10, &bytes);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+
+ ret = bdi_set_min_bytes(bdi, bytes);
+ if (!ret)
+ ret = count;
+
+ return ret;
+}
+DEVICE_ATTR_RW(min_bytes);
+
static ssize_t max_bytes_show(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr,
char *buf)
@@ -269,6 +297,7 @@ static struct attribute *bdi_dev_attrs[] = {
&dev_attr_read_ahead_kb.attr,
&dev_attr_min_ratio.attr,
&dev_attr_max_ratio.attr,
+ &dev_attr_min_bytes.attr,
&dev_attr_max_bytes.attr,
&dev_attr_stable_pages_required.attr,
&dev_attr_strict_limit.attr,