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mm: add strictlimit knob
authorMaxim Patlasov <MPatlasov@parallels.com>
Sat, 23 Nov 2013 05:05:43 +0000 (16:05 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:37:44 +0000 (14:37 +1100)
commit6b44e45c97e161ebe2b7c59eb635d902dbbc423f
tree3cc8e67984071bc0e5dbc974f865fd05ce9a5432
parent714c128e9f60be067ee383c5a33a21b1555964bc
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