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-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index e36666679e1c..026199c047e0 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2514,8 +2514,20 @@ static unsigned long shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
* the flushers simply cannot keep up with the allocation
* rate. Nudge the flusher threads in case they are asleep.
*/
- if (stat.nr_unqueued_dirty == nr_taken)
+ if (stat.nr_unqueued_dirty == nr_taken) {
wakeup_flusher_threads(WB_REASON_VMSCAN);
+ /*
+ * For cgroupv1 dirty throttling is achieved by waking up
+ * the kernel flusher here and later waiting on folios
+ * which are in writeback to finish (see shrink_folio_list()).
+ *
+ * Flusher may not be able to issue writeback quickly
+ * enough for cgroupv1 writeback throttling to work
+ * on a large system.
+ */
+ if (!writeback_throttling_sane(sc))
+ reclaim_throttle(pgdat, VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK);
+ }
sc->nr.dirty += stat.nr_dirty;
sc->nr.congested += stat.nr_congested;