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| author | Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> | 2010-06-06 10:38:15 -0600 |
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| committer | Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> | 2011-06-08 08:25:20 +0800 |
| commit | 6e6938b6d3130305a5960c86b1a9b21e58cf6144 (patch) | |
| tree | de5546e8390ce31cd31412d2ef78ce732a42191c /mm/page-writeback.c | |
| parent | 59c5f46fbe01a00eedf54a23789634438bb80603 (diff) | |
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writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage
sync(2) is performed in two stages: the WB_SYNC_NONE sync and the
WB_SYNC_ALL sync. Identify the first stage with .tagged_writepages and
do livelock prevention for it, too.
Jan's commit f446daaea9 ("mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance
using page tagging") is a partial fix in that it only fixed the
WB_SYNC_ALL phase livelock.
Although ext4 is tested to no longer livelock with commit f446daaea9,
it may due to some "redirty_tail() after pages_skipped" effect which
is by no means a guarantee for _all_ the file systems.
Note that writeback_inodes_sb() is called by not only sync(), they are
treated the same because the other callers also need livelock prevention.
Impact: It changes the order in which pages/inodes are synced to disk.
Now in the WB_SYNC_NONE stage, it won't proceed to write the next inode
until finished with the current inode.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 31f698862420..955fe35d01e0 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -892,12 +892,12 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping, range_whole = 1; cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */ } - if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) + if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages) tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE; else tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY; retry: - if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) + if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages) tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end); done_index = index; while (!done && (index <= end)) { |