Re: [PATCH 2/9] blkcg, writeback: Add wbc->no_wbc_acct

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Sat 15-06-19 11:24:46, Tejun Heo wrote:
> When writeback IOs are bounced through async layers, the IOs should
> only be accounted against the wbc from the original bdi writeback to
> avoid confusing cgroup inode ownership arbitration.  Add
> wbc->no_wbc_acct to allow disabling wbc accounting.  This will be used
> make btfs compression work well with cgroup IO control.
       ^^ btrfs

> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
...
> diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
> index 738a0c24874f..b8f5f000cde4 100644
> --- a/include/linux/writeback.h
> +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
> @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ struct writeback_control {
>  	unsigned for_reclaim:1;		/* Invoked from the page allocator */
>  	unsigned range_cyclic:1;	/* range_start is cyclic */
>  	unsigned for_sync:1;		/* sync(2) WB_SYNC_ALL writeback */
> +	unsigned no_wbc_acct:1;		/* skip wbc IO accounting */
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
>  	struct bdi_writeback *wb;	/* wb this writeback is issued under */
>  	struct inode *inode;		/* inode being written out */

Can you add comment here that this is for writeback which has been already
accounted for?

Otherwise the patch looks good to me so feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

								Honza

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Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR