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writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes()

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When writeback_single_inode() is called on inode which has I_SYNC already
set while doing WB_SYNC_NONE, inode is moved to b_more_io list. However
this makes sense only if the caller is flusher thread. For other callers of
writeback_single_inode() it doesn't really make sense and may be even wrong
- flusher thread may be doing WB_SYNC_ALL writeback in parallel.

So we move requeueing from writeback_single_inode() to writeback_sb_inodes().

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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Jan Kara 2012-05-03 14:47:56 +02:00 committed by Fengguang Wu
parent 365b94ae67
commit cc1676d917
2 changed files with 45 additions and 21 deletions
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30
fs/fs-writeback.c
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@ -373,21 +373,8 @@ writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct bdi_writeback *wb,
WARN_ON(inode->i_state & I_WILL_FREE);
if (inode->i_state & I_SYNC) {
/*
* If this inode is locked for writeback and we are not doing
* writeback-for-data-integrity, move it to b_more_io so that
* writeback can proceed with the other inodes on s_io.
*
* We'll have another go at writing back this inode when we
* completed a full scan of b_io.
*/
if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL) {
requeue_io(inode, wb);
trace_writeback_single_inode_requeue(inode, wbc,
nr_to_write);
if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL)
return 0;
}
/*
* It's a data-integrity sync. We must wait.
*/
@ -576,6 +563,21 @@ static long writeback_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
redirty_tail(inode, wb);
continue;
}
if ((inode->i_state & I_SYNC) && wbc.sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL) {
/*
* If this inode is locked for writeback and we are not
* doing writeback-for-data-integrity, move it to
* b_more_io so that writeback can proceed with the
* other inodes on s_io.
*
* We'll have another go at writing back this inode
* when we completed a full scan of b_io.
*/
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
requeue_io(inode, wb);
trace_writeback_sb_inodes_requeue(inode);
continue;
}
__iget(inode);
write_chunk = writeback_chunk_size(wb->bdi, work);
wbc.nr_to_write = write_chunk;

36
include/trace/events/writeback.h
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@ -372,6 +372,35 @@ TRACE_EVENT(balance_dirty_pages,
)
);
TRACE_EVENT(writeback_sb_inodes_requeue,
TP_PROTO(struct inode *inode),
TP_ARGS(inode),
TP_STRUCT__entry(
__array(char, name, 32)
__field(unsigned long, ino)
__field(unsigned long, state)
__field(unsigned long, dirtied_when)
),
TP_fast_assign(
strncpy(__entry->name,
dev_name(inode_to_bdi(inode)->dev), 32);
__entry->ino = inode->i_ino;
__entry->state = inode->i_state;
__entry->dirtied_when = inode->dirtied_when;
),
TP_printk("bdi %s: ino=%lu state=%s dirtied_when=%lu age=%lu",
__entry->name,
__entry->ino,
show_inode_state(__entry->state),
__entry->dirtied_when,
(jiffies - __entry->dirtied_when) / HZ
)
);
DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(writeback_congest_waited_template,
TP_PROTO(unsigned int usec_timeout, unsigned int usec_delayed),
@ -450,13 +479,6 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(writeback_single_inode_template,
)
);
DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_single_inode_template, writeback_single_inode_requeue,
TP_PROTO(struct inode *inode,
struct writeback_control *wbc,
unsigned long nr_to_write),
TP_ARGS(inode, wbc, nr_to_write)
);
DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_single_inode_template, writeback_single_inode,
TP_PROTO(struct inode *inode,
struct writeback_control *wbc,