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mm: add strictlimit knob
authorMaxim Patlasov <MPatlasov@parallels.com>
Fri, 3 Jan 2014 03:16:53 +0000 (14:16 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 6 Jan 2014 09:08:17 +0000 (20:08 +1100)
commit13b2a39ba72d31a1a9f0cd43af9f0d3e6833f721
tree0c9aaaba019080a110a6e809826186e9908aa92e
parent6bb7297fe473454d9b428a27efc7bc2e1acd5108
mm: add strictlimit knob

The "strictlimit" feature was introduced to enforce per-bdi dirty limits
for FUSE which sets bdi max_ratio to 1% by default:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/105809

However the feature can be useful for other relatively slow or untrusted
BDIs like USB flash drives and DVD+RW.  The patch adds a knob to enable
the feature:

echo 1 > /sys/class/bdi/X:Y/strictlimit

Being enabled, the feature enforces bdi max_ratio limit even if global
(10%) dirty limit is not reached.  Of course, the effect is not visible
until /sys/class/bdi/X:Y/max_ratio is decreased to some reasonable value.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <MPatlasov@parallels.com>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "Artem S. Tashkinov" <t.artem@lycos.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi
mm/backing-dev.c