The patch titled
mm/backing-dev.c: reset bdi min_ratio in bdi_unregister()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
bdi_min_ratio-never-shrinks-ultimately-preventing-valid-setting-of-min_ratio.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: mm/backing-dev.c: reset bdi min_ratio in bdi_unregister()
From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Vito said:
: The system has many usb disks coming and going day to day, with their
: respective bdi's having min_ratio set to 1 when inserted. It works for
: some time until eventually min_ratio can no longer be set, even when the
: active set of bdi's seen in /sys/class/bdi/*/min_ratio doesn't add up to
: anywhere near 100.
:
: This then leads to an unrelated starvation problem caused by write-heavy
: fuse mounts being used atop the usb disks, a problem the min_ratio setting
: at the underlying devices bdi effectively prevents.
Fix this leakage by resetting the bdi min_ratio when unregistering the
BDI.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Vito Caputo <[email protected]>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <[email protected]>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
mm/backing-dev.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN
mm/backing-dev.c~bdi_min_ratio-never-shrinks-ultimately-preventing-valid-setting-of-min_ratio
mm/backing-dev.c
---
a/mm/backing-dev.c~bdi_min_ratio-never-shrinks-ultimately-preventing-valid-setting-of-min_ratio
+++ a/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -606,6 +606,7 @@ static void bdi_prune_sb(struct backing_
void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
if (bdi->dev) {
+ bdi_set_min_ratio(bdi, 0);
trace_writeback_bdi_unregister(bdi);
bdi_prune_sb(bdi);
del_timer_sync(&bdi->wb.wakeup_timer);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are
origin.patch
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