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authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>2010-07-07 13:24:07 +1000
committerJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2010-08-07 18:24:25 +0200
commit028c2dd184c097809986684f2f0627eea5529fea (patch)
treef6eb9e30a24d73597e5ce2a65b4638e9d1947504 /fs/fs-writeback.c
parent455b2864686d3591b3b2f39eb46290c95f76471f (diff)
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writeback: Add tracing to balance_dirty_pages
Tracing high level background writeback events is good, but it doesn't give the entire picture. Add visibility into write throttling to catch IO dispatched by foreground throttling of processing dirtying lots of pages. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/fs-writeback.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 73acab4dc2b7..bf10cbf379dd 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -656,10 +656,14 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
wbc.more_io = 0;
wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
wbc.pages_skipped = 0;
+
+ trace_wbc_writeback_start(&wbc, wb->bdi);
if (work->sb)
__writeback_inodes_sb(work->sb, wb, &wbc);
else
writeback_inodes_wb(wb, &wbc);
+ trace_wbc_writeback_written(&wbc, wb->bdi);
+
work->nr_pages -= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write;
wrote += MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write;
@@ -687,6 +691,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
if (!list_empty(&wb->b_more_io)) {
inode = list_entry(wb->b_more_io.prev,
struct inode, i_list);
+ trace_wbc_writeback_wait(&wbc, wb->bdi);
inode_wait_for_writeback(inode);
}
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);