Throttle VM writeout in a cpuset aware way This bases the vm throttling from the reclaim path on the dirty ratio of the cpuset. Note that a cpuset is only effective if shrink_zone is called from direct reclaim. kswapd has a cpuset context that includes the whole machine. VM throttling will only work during synchrononous reclaim and not from kswapd. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Index: linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/include/linux/writeback.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1.orig/include/linux/writeback.h 2007-03-20 16:06:46.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/include/linux/writeback.h 2007-03-20 16:07:51.000000000 -0700 @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static inline void wait_on_inode(struct int wakeup_pdflush(long nr_pages, nodemask_t *nodes); void laptop_io_completion(void); void laptop_sync_completion(void); -void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask); +void throttle_vm_writeout(nodemask_t *nodes,gfp_t gfp_mask); extern struct timer_list laptop_mode_wb_timer; static inline int laptop_spinned_down(void) Index: linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/mm/page-writeback.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1.orig/mm/page-writeback.c 2007-03-20 16:07:08.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/mm/page-writeback.c 2007-03-20 16:07:51.000000000 -0700 @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr( } EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr); -void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask) +void throttle_vm_writeout(nodemask_t *nodes, gfp_t gfp_mask) { struct dirty_limits dl; @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask } for ( ; ; ) { - get_dirty_limits(&dl, NULL, &node_online_map); + get_dirty_limits(&dl, NULL, nodes); /* * Boost the allowable dirty threshold a bit for page Index: linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/mm/vmscan.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1.orig/mm/vmscan.c 2007-03-20 16:07:36.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/mm/vmscan.c 2007-03-20 16:07:51.000000000 -0700 @@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zone(int pri } } - throttle_vm_writeout(sc->gfp_mask); + throttle_vm_writeout(&cpuset_current_mems_allowed, sc->gfp_mask); atomic_dec(&zone->reclaim_in_progress); return nr_reclaimed;