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diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 8cd71376c63..446bdf7b975 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@
#include <trace/events/writeback.h>
/*
+ * Estimate write bandwidth at 200ms intervals.
+ */
+#define BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL max(HZ/5, 1)
+
+/*
* After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited
* will look to see if it needs to force writeback or throttling.
*/
@@ -471,6 +476,85 @@ unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned long dirty)
return bdi_dirty;
}
+static void bdi_update_write_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
+ unsigned long elapsed,
+ unsigned long written)
+{
+ const unsigned long period = roundup_pow_of_two(3 * HZ);
+ unsigned long avg = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
+ unsigned long old = bdi->write_bandwidth;
+ u64 bw;
+
+ /*
+ * bw = written * HZ / elapsed
+ *
+ * bw * elapsed + write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed)
+ * write_bandwidth = ---------------------------------------------------
+ * period
+ */
+ bw = written - bdi->written_stamp;
+ bw *= HZ;
+ if (unlikely(elapsed > period)) {
+ do_div(bw, elapsed);
+ avg = bw;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ bw += (u64)bdi->write_bandwidth * (period - elapsed);
+ bw >>= ilog2(period);
+
+ /*
+ * one more level of smoothing, for filtering out sudden spikes
+ */
+ if (avg > old && old >= (unsigned long)bw)
+ avg -= (avg - old) >> 3;
+
+ if (avg < old && old <= (unsigned long)bw)
+ avg += (old - avg) >> 3;
+
+out:
+ bdi->write_bandwidth = bw;
+ bdi->avg_write_bandwidth = avg;
+}
+
+void __bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
+ unsigned long start_time)
+{
+ unsigned long now = jiffies;
+ unsigned long elapsed = now - bdi->bw_time_stamp;
+ unsigned long written;
+
+ /*
+ * rate-limit, only update once every 200ms.
+ */
+ if (elapsed < BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL)
+ return;
+
+ written = percpu_counter_read(&bdi->bdi_stat[BDI_WRITTEN]);
+
+ /*
+ * Skip quiet periods when disk bandwidth is under-utilized.
+ * (at least 1s idle time between two flusher runs)
+ */
+ if (elapsed > HZ && time_before(bdi->bw_time_stamp, start_time))
+ goto snapshot;
+
+ bdi_update_write_bandwidth(bdi, elapsed, written);
+
+snapshot:
+ bdi->written_stamp = written;
+ bdi->bw_time_stamp = now;
+}
+
+static void bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
+ unsigned long start_time)
+{
+ if (time_is_after_eq_jiffies(bdi->bw_time_stamp + BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL))
+ return;
+ spin_lock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
+ __bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, start_time);
+ spin_unlock(&bdi->wb.list_lock);
+}
+
/*
* balance_dirty_pages() must be called by processes which are generating dirty
* data. It looks at the number of dirty pages in the machine and will force
@@ -490,6 +574,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
unsigned long pause = 1;
bool dirty_exceeded = false;
struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
+ unsigned long start_time = jiffies;
for (;;) {
nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
@@ -544,6 +629,8 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
if (!bdi->dirty_exceeded)
bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1;
+ bdi_update_bandwidth(bdi, start_time);
+
/* Note: nr_reclaimable denotes nr_dirty + nr_unstable.
* Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked
* filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been