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| author | Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> | 2011-05-04 19:54:37 -0600 |
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| committer | Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> | 2011-07-09 22:09:01 -0700 |
| commit | d46db3d58233be4be980eb1e42eebe7808bcabab (patch) | |
| tree | 6d813b33938d915f0c0633e8615d1ffdcc554c96 /mm/page-writeback.c | |
| parent | 36715cef0770b7e2547892b7c3197fc024274630 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-d46db3d58233be4be980eb1e42eebe7808bcabab.tar.gz lwn-d46db3d58233be4be980eb1e42eebe7808bcabab.zip | |
writeback: make writeback_control.nr_to_write straight
Pass struct wb_writeback_work all the way down to writeback_sb_inodes(),
and initialize the struct writeback_control there.
struct writeback_control is basically designed to control writeback of a
single file, but we keep abuse it for writing multiple files in
writeback_sb_inodes() and its callers.
It immediately clean things up, e.g. suddenly wbc.nr_to_write vs
work->nr_pages starts to make sense, and instead of saving and restoring
pages_skipped in writeback_sb_inodes it can always start with a clean
zero value.
It also makes a neat IO pattern change: large dirty files are now
written in the full 4MB writeback chunk size, rather than whatever
remained quota in wbc->nr_to_write.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Proposed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 1965d05a29cc..9d6ac2b6d942 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -491,13 +491,6 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info; for (;;) { - struct writeback_control wbc = { - .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE, - .older_than_this = NULL, - .nr_to_write = write_chunk, - .range_cyclic = 1, - }; - nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) + global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS); nr_writeback = global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK); @@ -559,17 +552,17 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, * threshold otherwise wait until the disk writes catch * up. */ - trace_wbc_balance_dirty_start(&wbc, bdi); + trace_balance_dirty_start(bdi); if (bdi_nr_reclaimable > bdi_thresh) { - writeback_inodes_wb(&bdi->wb, &wbc); - pages_written += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write; - trace_wbc_balance_dirty_written(&wbc, bdi); + pages_written += writeback_inodes_wb(&bdi->wb, + write_chunk); + trace_balance_dirty_written(bdi, pages_written); if (pages_written >= write_chunk) break; /* We've done our duty */ } - trace_wbc_balance_dirty_wait(&wbc, bdi); __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); io_schedule_timeout(pause); + trace_balance_dirty_wait(bdi); /* * Increase the delay for each loop, up to our previous |