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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] writeback: stop background/kupdate works from livelocking other works
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:55:16 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101110035516.GA12710@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101110024223.847210776@intel.com>

Jan, the below comment is also updated, please double check.

>  
>  		/*
> +		 * Background writeout and kupdate-style writeback may
> +		 * run forever. Stop them if there is other work to do
> +		 * so that e.g. sync can proceed. They'll be restarted
> +		 * after the other works are all done.
> +		 */
> +		if ((work->for_background || work->for_kupdate) &&
> +		    !list_empty(&wb->bdi->work_list))
> +			break;
> +
> +		/*
>  		 * For background writeout, stop when we are below the
>  		 * background dirty threshold
>  		 */
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-10  3:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-10  2:35 [PATCH 0/5] writeback livelock fixes v2 Wu Fengguang
2010-11-10  2:35 ` [PATCH 1/5] writeback: integrated background writeback work Wu Fengguang
2010-11-10  2:35 ` [PATCH 2/5] writeback: trace wakeup event for background writeback Wu Fengguang
2010-11-10  2:35 ` [PATCH 3/5] writeback: stop background/kupdate works from livelocking other works Wu Fengguang
2010-11-10  3:55   ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2010-11-10 16:26     ` Jan Kara
2010-11-10  2:35 ` [PATCH 4/5] writeback: avoid livelocking WB_SYNC_ALL writeback Wu Fengguang
2010-11-10  2:35 ` [PATCH 5/5] writeback: check skipped pages on WB_SYNC_ALL Wu Fengguang
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-08 23:09 [PATCH 0/5] writeback livelock fixes Wu Fengguang
2010-11-08 23:09 ` [PATCH 3/5] writeback: stop background/kupdate works from livelocking other works Wu Fengguang
2010-11-09 21:13   ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-09 22:28     ` Jan Kara
2010-11-09 23:00       ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-09 23:56         ` Jan Kara
2010-11-10 23:37           ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-11  0:40             ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-11 13:32               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-11 16:44             ` Jan Kara

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