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NeilBrown 8d92890bd6 mm/writeback: discard NR_UNSTABLE_NFS, use NR_WRITEBACK instead 
After an NFS page has been written it is considered "unstable" until a
COMMIT request succeeds.  If the COMMIT fails, the page will be
re-written.

These "unstable" pages are currently accounted as "reclaimable", either
in WB_RECLAIMABLE, or in NR_UNSTABLE_NFS which is included in a
'reclaimable' count.  This might have made sense when sending the COMMIT
required a separate action by the VFS/MM (e.g.  releasepage() used to
send a COMMIT).  However now that all writes generated by ->writepages()
will automatically be followed by a COMMIT (since commit 919e3bd9a8
("NFS: Ensure we commit after writeback is complete")) it makes more
sense to treat them as writeback pages.

So this patch removes NR_UNSTABLE_NFS and accounts unstable pages in
NR_WRITEBACK and WB_WRITEBACK.

A particular effect of this change is that when
wb_check_background_flush() calls wb_over_bg_threshold(), the latter
will report 'true' a lot less often as the 'unstable' pages are no
longer considered 'dirty' (as there is nothing that writeback can do
about them anyway).

Currently wb_check_background_flush() will trigger writeback to NFS even
when there are relatively few dirty pages (if there are lots of unstable
pages), this can result in small writes going to the server (10s of
Kilobytes rather than a Megabyte) which hurts throughput.  With this
patch, there are fewer writes which are each larger on average.

Where the NR_UNSTABLE_NFS count was included in statistics
virtual-files, the entry is retained, but the value is hard-coded as
zero.  static trace points and warning printks which mentioned this
counter no longer report it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: re-layout comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning]
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>	[mm]
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87d06j7gqa.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-02 10:59:08 -07:00
arch arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h: remove unused `old_pte' 2020-06-02 10:59:05 -07:00
block mm: move readahead prototypes from mm.h 2020-06-02 10:59:06 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto crypto: engine - do not requeue in case of fatal error 2020-05-28 17:27:52 +10:00
Documentation mm/writeback: discard NR_UNSTABLE_NFS, use NR_WRITEBACK instead 2020-06-02 10:59:08 -07:00
drivers mm/writeback: discard NR_UNSTABLE_NFS, use NR_WRITEBACK instead 2020-06-02 10:59:08 -07:00
fs mm/writeback: discard NR_UNSTABLE_NFS, use NR_WRITEBACK instead 2020-06-02 10:59:08 -07:00
include mm/writeback: discard NR_UNSTABLE_NFS, use NR_WRITEBACK instead 2020-06-02 10:59:08 -07:00
init A single fix for early boot crashes of kernels built with gcc10 and 2020-05-17 11:08:29 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-14 10:00:35 -07:00
kernel mm/writeback: replace PF_LESS_THROTTLE with PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE 2020-06-02 10:59:08 -07:00
lib Printk changes for 5.8 2020-06-01 12:13:30 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm/writeback: discard NR_UNSTABLE_NFS, use NR_WRITEBACK instead 2020-06-02 10:59:08 -07:00
net Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-06-01 12:00:10 -07:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-05-15 13:10:06 -07:00
scripts checkpatch/coding-style: deprecate 80-column warning 2020-05-31 11:00:42 -07:00
security Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-06-01 12:00:10 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.7 (rc8 or final) 2020-05-29 13:31:01 -07:00
tools Fixes and new features for pstore 2020-06-01 12:07:34 -07:00
usr kbuild: fix comment about missing include guard detection 2020-04-11 12:09:48 +09:00
virt KVM: Introduce kvm_make_all_cpus_request_except() 2020-05-08 07:44:32 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2020-04-18 13:49:33 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
.mailmap i2c: use my kernel.org address from now on 2020-05-05 16:29:09 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Hand MIPS over to Thomas 2020-02-24 22:43:18 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Add support for wider Memory Bandwidth Monitoring counters by querying 2020-06-01 12:24:14 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.7 2020-05-31 16:49:15 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.