From 7637241e651ec36e409412869f986dd5f097735f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 10:00:38 -0600 Subject: writeback: add wbc_to_write_flags() Add wbc_to_write_flags(), which returns the write modifier flags to use, based on a struct writeback_control. No functional changes in this patch, but it prepares us for factoring other wbc fields for write type. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig --- mm/page_io.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/page_io.c b/mm/page_io.c index a2651f58c86a..23f6d0d3470f 100644 --- a/mm/page_io.c +++ b/mm/page_io.c @@ -320,10 +320,7 @@ int __swap_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc, ret = -ENOMEM; goto out; } - if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) - bio_set_op_attrs(bio, REQ_OP_WRITE, REQ_SYNC); - else - bio_set_op_attrs(bio, REQ_OP_WRITE, 0); + bio->bi_opf = REQ_OP_WRITE | wbc_to_write_flags(wbc); count_vm_event(PSWPOUT); set_page_writeback(page); unlock_page(page); -- cgit v1.2.3 From b57d74aff9ab92fbfb7c197c384d1adfa2827b2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 10:20:33 -0600 Subject: writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages() Note in the bdi_writeback structure whenever a task ends up sleeping waiting for progress. We can use that information in the lower layers to increase the priority of writes. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Reviewed-by: Jan Kara --- include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h | 2 ++ mm/backing-dev.c | 1 + mm/page-writeback.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h index c357f27d5483..dc5f76d7f648 100644 --- a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h @@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ struct bdi_writeback { struct list_head work_list; struct delayed_work dwork; /* work item used for writeback */ + unsigned long dirty_sleep; /* last wait */ + struct list_head bdi_node; /* anchored at bdi->wb_list */ #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index 8fde443f36d7..3bfed5ab2475 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ static int wb_init(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct backing_dev_info *bdi, spin_lock_init(&wb->work_lock); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wb->work_list); INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&wb->dwork, wb_workfn); + wb->dirty_sleep = jiffies; wb->congested = wb_congested_get_create(bdi, blkcg_id, gfp); if (!wb->congested) diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 439cc63ad903..52e2f8e3b472 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -1778,6 +1778,7 @@ pause: pause, start_time); __set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE); + wb->dirty_sleep = now; io_schedule_timeout(pause); current->dirty_paused_when = now + pause; -- cgit v1.2.3