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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2015-03-17 12:23:19 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2015-03-17 12:23:19 -0400
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fs: make sure the timestamps for lazytime inodes eventually get written
Jan Kara pointed out that if there is an inode which is constantly getting dirtied with I_DIRTY_PAGES, an inode with an updated timestamp will never be written since inode->dirtied_when is constantly getting updated. We fix this by adding an extra field to the inode, dirtied_time_when, so inodes with a stale dirtytime can get detected and handled. In addition, if we have a dirtytime inode caused by an atime update, and there is no write activity on the file system, we need to have a secondary system to make sure these inodes get written out. We do this by setting up a second delayed work structure which wakes up the CPU much more rarely compared to writeback_expire_centisecs. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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