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mm: add strictlimit knob
authorMaxim Patlasov <MPatlasov@parallels.com>
Sat, 17 May 2014 13:19:33 +0000 (23:19 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 19 May 2014 07:35:08 +0000 (17:35 +1000)
commit5f7e8d7680165491b05c5b4478b21664a4eeb20d
tree08b395054381308d7e8ed981c1d6dd44d2b5e617
parentc9d7d395c83bb14eac36263fc822de50127dd241
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