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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fs-writeback.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index e4504299f4a5..271cf2150ba0 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -739,23 +739,23 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, wrote += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write; /* - * If we consumed everything, see if we have more + * Did we write something? Try for more + * + * Dirty inodes are moved to b_io for writeback in batches. + * The completion of the current batch does not necessarily + * mean the overall work is done. So we keep looping as long + * as made some progress on cleaning pages or inodes. */ - if (wbc.nr_to_write <= 0) + if (wbc.nr_to_write < write_chunk) continue; if (wbc.inodes_written) continue; /* - * Didn't write everything and we don't have more IO, bail + * No more inodes for IO, bail */ if (!wbc.more_io) break; /* - * Did we write something? Try for more - */ - if (wbc.nr_to_write < write_chunk) - continue; - /* * Nothing written. Wait for some inode to * become available for writeback. Otherwise * we'll just busyloop. |