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authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2010-07-21 22:50:57 -0600
committerWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2011-06-08 08:25:20 +0800
commitcb9bd1159c5fe8995e151fa7df10fa19f8c119cc (patch)
tree3f2dd37182180cf85cd9e23d989b7fd7eceb1d63 /fs/fs-writeback.c
parent94c3dcbb0b0cdfd82cedd21705424d8044edc42c (diff)
downloadlinux-cb9bd1159c5fe8995e151fa7df10fa19f8c119cc.tar.bz2
writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes_written
The flusher works on dirty inodes in batches, and may quit prematurely if the batch of inodes happen to be metadata-only dirtied: in this case wbc->nr_to_write won't be decreased at all, which stands for "no pages written" but also mis-interpreted as "no progress". So introduce writeback_control.inodes_written to count the inodes get cleaned from VFS POV. A non-zero value means there are some progress on writeback, in which case more writeback can be tried. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/fs-writeback.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index fe190a8b0bc8..e4504299f4a5 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -464,6 +464,7 @@ writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
* No need to add it back to the LRU.
*/
list_del_init(&inode->i_wb_list);
+ wbc->inodes_written++;
}
}
inode_sync_complete(inode);
@@ -725,6 +726,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
wbc.more_io = 0;
wbc.nr_to_write = write_chunk;
wbc.pages_skipped = 0;
+ wbc.inodes_written = 0;
trace_wbc_writeback_start(&wbc, wb->bdi);
if (work->sb)
@@ -741,6 +743,8 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
*/
if (wbc.nr_to_write <= 0)
continue;
+ if (wbc.inodes_written)
+ continue;
/*
* Didn't write everything and we don't have more IO, bail
*/