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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/18] writeback: make writeback_control.nr_to_write straight
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 09:29:10 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110519232910.GK32466@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110519220643.GA27247@localhost>

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 06:06:44AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> :                 writeback_single_inode(inode, wb, &wbc);
> :                 work->nr_pages -= write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write;
> :                 wrote += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write;
> :                 if (wbc.pages_skipped) {
> :                         /*
> :                          * writeback is not making progress due to locked
> :                          * buffers.  Skip this inode for now.
> :                          */
> :                         redirty_tail(inode, wb);
> : -               }
> : +               } else if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY))
> : +                       wrote++;
> 
> It looks a bit more clean to do
> 
> :                 wrote += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write;
> : +               if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY))
> : +                       wrote++;
> :                 if (wbc.pages_skipped) {
> :                         /*
> :                          * writeback is not making progress due to locked
> :                          * buffers.  Skip this inode for now.
> :                          */
> :                         redirty_tail(inode, wb);
> :                 }

But it's still in the wrong place - such post-write inode dirty
processing is supposed to be isolated to writeback_single_inode().
Spreading it across multiple locations is not, IMO, the nicest thing
to do...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-19 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-19 21:45 [PATCH 00/18] writeback fixes and cleanups for 2.6.40 (v3) Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 01/18] writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 02/18] writeback: update dirtied_when for synced inode to prevent livelock Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 03/18] writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes_cleaned Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 04/18] writeback: try more writeback as long as something was written Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 05/18] writeback: the kupdate expire timestamp should be a moving target Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 06/18] writeback: sync expired inodes first in background writeback Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 07/18] writeback: refill b_io iff empty Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 08/18] writeback: split inode_wb_list_lock into bdi_writeback.list_lock Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 09/18] writeback: elevate queue_io() into wb_writeback() Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 10/18] writeback: avoid extra sync work at enqueue time Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 11/18] writeback: add bdi_dirty_limit() kernel-doc Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 12/18] writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fs Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 13/18] writeback: remove writeback_control.more_io Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 14/18] writeback: make writeback_control.nr_to_write straight Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 22:06   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 23:29     ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-05-20  4:07       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-20  6:52         ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-20  7:15           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-20  7:26             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 15/18] writeback: remove .nonblocking and .encountered_congestion Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 16/18] writeback: trace event writeback_single_inode Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 17/18] writeback: trace event writeback_queue_io Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 18/18] writeback: rearrange the wb_writeback() loop Wu Fengguang
2011-05-23  9:07 ` [PATCH 00/18] writeback fixes and cleanups for 2.6.40 (v3) Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-23  9:28   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-24  3:28     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-06-01 22:31       ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-02  2:29         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-06-07 12:13           ` writeback merge status, was " Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-07 20:15             ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-07 21:11               ` Wu Fengguang

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