From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes() Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:38:20 -0400 Message-ID: <20120430143820.GB10964@infradead.org> References: <1332284191-21076-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <1332284191-21076-3-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Wu Fengguang , Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Kara Return-path: Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:57073 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753439Ab2D3OiW (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:38:22 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1332284191-21076-3-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:56:26PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > When writeback_single_inode() is called on inode which has I_SYNC already > set while doing WB_SYNC_NONE, inode is moved to b_more_io list. However > this makes sense only if the caller is flusher thread. For other callers of > writeback_single_inode() it doesn't really make sense and may be even wrong > - flusher thread may be doing WB_SYNC_ALL writeback in parallel. > > So we move requeueing from writeback_single_inode() to writeback_sb_inodes(). > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Looks good, Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig