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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCHv4 05/14] writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:05:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1279897554-1526-6-git-send-email-dedekind1@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1279897554-1526-1-git-send-email-dedekind1@gmail.com>

From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

Currently, bdi threads ('bdi_writeback_thread()') can lose wake-ups. For
example, if 'bdi_queue_work()' is executed after the bdi thread have had
finished 'wb_do_writeback()' but before it called
'schedule_timeout_interruptible()'.

To fix this issue, we have to check whether we have works to process after we
have changed the task state to 'TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE'.

This patch also clean-ups handling of the cases when 'dirty_writeback_interval'
is zero or non-zero.

Additionally, this patch also removes unneeded 'list_empty_careful()' call.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 fs/fs-writeback.c |   17 +++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 5e6b7fc..8cf53ba 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -848,17 +848,18 @@ int bdi_writeback_thread(void *data)
 				break;
 		}
 
-		if (dirty_writeback_interval) {
-			wait_jiffies = msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10);
-			schedule_timeout_interruptible(wait_jiffies);
-		} else {
-			set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
-			if (list_empty_careful(&wb->bdi->work_list) &&
-			    !kthread_should_stop())
-				schedule();
+		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+		if (!list_empty(&bdi->work_list)) {
 			__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
+			continue;
 		}
 
+		if (dirty_writeback_interval) {
+			wait_jiffies = msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10);
+			schedule_timeout(wait_jiffies);
+		} else
+			schedule();
+
 		try_to_freeze();
 	}
 
-- 
1.7.1.1

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-23 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-23 15:05 [PATCHv4 00/14] kill unnecessary bdi wakeups + cleanups Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-23 15:05 ` [PATCHv4 01/14] writeback: harmonize writeback threads naming Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-23 15:05 ` [PATCHv4 02/14] writeback: fix possible race when creating bdi threads Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-23 15:05 ` [PATCHv4 03/14] writeback: do not lose wake-ups in the forker thread - 1 Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-23 15:05 ` [PATCHv4 04/14] writeback: do not lose wake-ups in the forker thread - 2 Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-23 15:05 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2010-07-23 15:05 ` [PATCHv4 06/14] writeback: simplify bdi code a little Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-23 15:05 ` [PATCHv4 07/14] writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-23 15:05 ` [PATCHv4 08/14] writeback: move last_active to bdi Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-23 15:05 ` [PATCHv4 09/14] writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-23 15:05 ` [PATCHv4 10/14] writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-23 16:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-24  5:55     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-23 15:05 ` [PATCHv4 11/14] writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-23 15:05 ` [PATCHv4 12/14] writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-23 16:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-24  6:00     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-23 15:05 ` [PATCHv4 13/14] writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-23 16:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-23 15:05 ` [PATCHv4 14/14] writeback: add new tracepoints Artem Bityutskiy
2010-07-23 16:29   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-24  6:01     ` Artem Bityutskiy

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