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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	chris.mason@oracle.com, david@fromorbit.com, hch@infradead.org,
	tytso@mit.edu, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data v2
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 14:06:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090904120611.GW18599@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090904120407.GV18599@kernel.dk>

On Fri, Sep 04 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
> +static long wb_check_old_data_flush(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
> +{
> +	unsigned long expired;
> +	long nr_pages;
> +
> +	expired = wb->last_old_flush +
> +			msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10);
> +	if (time_before(jiffies, expired))
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
> +			global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
> +			(inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused);
> +
> +	return wb_writeback(wb, nr_pages, NULL, WB_SYNC_NONE, 1);
> +}

Needs to set ->last_old_flush of course. I also made it check for
nr_pages > 0 before calling into wb_writeback().

-- 
Jens Axboe

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-04 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-04  7:46 [PATCH 0/8] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v18 Jens Axboe
2009-09-04  7:46 ` [PATCH 1/8] writeback: get rid of generic_sync_sb_inodes() export Jens Axboe
2009-09-04  8:28   ` Jan Kara
2009-09-04 11:59     ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-04  7:46 ` [PATCH 2/8] writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info Jens Axboe
2009-09-04  7:46 ` [PATCH 3/8] writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data Jens Axboe
2009-09-04 10:54   ` Jan Kara
2009-09-04 11:58     ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-04 12:04       ` [PATCH 3/8] writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data v2 Jens Axboe
2009-09-04 12:06         ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2009-09-07 18:36         ` Jan Kara
2009-09-07 18:45           ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-07 19:45             ` Jan Kara
2009-09-07 19:50               ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-04  7:46 ` [PATCH 4/8] writeback: get rid of pdflush completely Jens Axboe
2009-09-04  7:46 ` [PATCH 5/8] writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi stats Jens Axboe
2009-09-04  7:46 ` [PATCH 6/8] writeback: add name to backing_dev_info Jens Axboe
2009-09-04  7:46 ` [PATCH 7/8] writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty Jens Axboe
2009-09-04  7:46 ` [PATCH 8/8] vm: Add an tuning knob for vm.max_writeback_mb Jens Axboe
2009-09-04 15:28   ` Richard Kennedy
2009-09-05 13:26     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-05 16:18       ` Richard Kennedy
2009-09-05 16:46     ` Theodore Tso
2009-09-07 19:09   ` Jan Kara

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