Re: [PATCH 3/4] writeback: only use bdi_writeback_all() for WB_SYNC_NONE writeout

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Sep 11 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > -static struct bdi_work *bdi_alloc_work(struct writeback_control *wbc)
> > +static void bdi_alloc_queue_work(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
> > +				 struct writeback_control *wbc)
> >  {
> >  	struct bdi_work *work;
> >  
> > @@ -195,7 +196,7 @@ static struct bdi_work *bdi_alloc_work(struct writeback_control *wbc)
> >  	if (work)
> >  		bdi_work_init(work, wbc);
> >  
> > -	return work;
> > +	bdi_queue_work(bdi, work);
> 
> This is now the only caller of bdi_queue_work that has a NULL work
> argument.  I would recommend removing the !work half of bdi_queue_work
> and just inline it into this function (or make it a separate helper).

http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=cd932613c5b86a5bb2eefee726749acb0ed1a5b8

 
> > @@ -1157,6 +1115,7 @@ long sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *sb)
> >  {
> >  	struct writeback_control wbc = {
> >  		.sb		= sb,
> > +		.bdi		= sb->s_bdi,
> >  		.sync_mode	= WB_SYNC_ALL,
> >  		.range_start	= 0,
> >  		.range_end	= LLONG_MAX,
> > @@ -1164,7 +1123,7 @@ long sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *sb)
> >  	long nr_to_write = LONG_MAX; /* doesn't actually matter */
> >  
> >  	wbc.nr_to_write = nr_to_write;
> > -	bdi_writeback_all(&wbc);
> > +	bdi_start_writeback(&wbc);
> 
> So here we have a WB_SYNC_ALL caller of bdi_writeback_all and the
> only other caller is WB_SYNC_NONE.  Given that after patch two those
> are entirely different codepathes in bdi_start_writeback I would just
> split bdi_start_writeback into two separate functions.

http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=479364efda68ae0d954f325fa52a3bbe94916783

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Jens Axboe