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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2025-10-17 05:45:48 +0200
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2025-10-29 15:54:31 +0100
commit90db4d4441f58d433ecf74f7e3bd17e0a553c20c (patch)
tree8e436c715c54452cb72e8daee40fdef8887ad46a
parent151d0922bf638a4e4235758d04b31f48bfcbb798 (diff)
writeback: allow the file system to override MIN_WRITEBACK_PAGES
The relatively low minimal writeback size of 4MiB means that written back inodes on rotational media are switched a lot. Besides introducing additional seeks, this also can lead to extreme file fragmentation on zoned devices when a lot of files are cached relative to the available writeback bandwidth. Add a superblock field that allows the file system to override the default size. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251017034611.651385-3-hch@lst.de Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/fs-writeback.c14
-rw-r--r--fs/super.c1
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h1
-rw-r--r--include/linux/writeback.h5
4 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 30de37865fa1..52763fa499d6 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -33,11 +33,6 @@
#include "internal.h"
/*
- * 4MB minimal write chunk size
- */
-#define MIN_WRITEBACK_PAGES (4096UL >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10))
-
-/*
* Passed into wb_writeback(), essentially a subset of writeback_control
*/
struct wb_writeback_work {
@@ -1889,8 +1884,8 @@ out:
return ret;
}
-static long writeback_chunk_size(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
- struct wb_writeback_work *work)
+static long writeback_chunk_size(struct super_block *sb,
+ struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct wb_writeback_work *work)
{
long pages;
@@ -1913,7 +1908,8 @@ static long writeback_chunk_size(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
pages = min(wb->avg_write_bandwidth / 2,
global_wb_domain.dirty_limit / DIRTY_SCOPE);
pages = min(pages, work->nr_pages);
- return round_down(pages + MIN_WRITEBACK_PAGES, MIN_WRITEBACK_PAGES);
+ return round_down(pages + sb->s_min_writeback_pages,
+ sb->s_min_writeback_pages);
}
/*
@@ -2015,7 +2011,7 @@ static long writeback_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
inode->i_state |= I_SYNC;
wbc_attach_and_unlock_inode(&wbc, inode);
- write_chunk = writeback_chunk_size(wb, work);
+ write_chunk = writeback_chunk_size(inode->i_sb, wb, work);
wbc.nr_to_write = write_chunk;
wbc.pages_skipped = 0;
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 5bab94fb7e03..599c1d2641fe 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -389,6 +389,7 @@ static struct super_block *alloc_super(struct file_system_type *type, int flags,
goto fail;
if (list_lru_init_memcg(&s->s_inode_lru, s->s_shrink))
goto fail;
+ s->s_min_writeback_pages = MIN_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
return s;
fail:
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index a5dbfa20f8d7..6bf369095d2e 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1583,6 +1583,7 @@ struct super_block {
spinlock_t s_inode_wblist_lock;
struct list_head s_inodes_wb; /* writeback inodes */
+ long s_min_writeback_pages;
} __randomize_layout;
static inline struct user_namespace *i_user_ns(const struct inode *inode)
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 22dd4adc5667..49e1dd96f43e 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -374,4 +374,9 @@ bool redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *, struct page *);
void sb_mark_inode_writeback(struct inode *inode);
void sb_clear_inode_writeback(struct inode *inode);
+/*
+ * 4MB minimal write chunk size
+ */
+#define MIN_WRITEBACK_PAGES (4096UL >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10))
+
#endif /* WRITEBACK_H */