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 and will therefore not throttle unless global limits are reached. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4/include/linux/writeback.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.20-rc4.orig/include/linux/writeback.h 2007-01-09 12:12:58.000000000 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.20-rc4/include/linux/writeback.h 2007-01-09 12:20:18.924053912 -0600 @@ -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(void); +void throttle_vm_writeout(nodemask_t *); /* These are exported to sysctl. */ extern int dirty_background_ratio; Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4/mm/page-writeback.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.20-rc4.orig/mm/page-writeback.c 2007-01-09 12:12:58.000000000 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.20-rc4/mm/page-writeback.c 2007-01-09 12:40:30.481005894 -0600 @@ -349,12 +349,12 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr( } EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr); -void throttle_vm_writeout(void) +void throttle_vm_writeout(nodemask_t *nodes) { struct dirty_limits dl; 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-2.6.20-rc4/mm/vmscan.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.20-rc4.orig/mm/vmscan.c 2007-01-09 12:12:58.000000000 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.20-rc4/mm/vmscan.c 2007-01-09 12:39:35.423505455 -0600 @@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zone(int pri } } - throttle_vm_writeout(); + throttle_vm_writeout(&cpuset_current_mems_allowed); atomic_dec(&zone->reclaim_in_progress); return nr_reclaimed;