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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next prev parent 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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