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From: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Chad Talbott <ctalbott@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>,
	sandeen@redhat.com, Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
Subject: Re: Bug in kernel 2.6.31, Slow wb_kupdate writeout
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:19:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33307c790907291719r2caf7914xb543877464ba6fc2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090729114322.GA9335@localhost>

BTW, can you explain this code at the bottom of generic_sync_sb_inodes
for me?

                if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0) {
                        wbc->more_io = 1;
                        break;
                }

I don't understand why we are setting more_io here? AFAICS, more_io
means there's more stuff to write ... I would think we'd set this if
nr_to_write was > 0 ?

Or just have the section below brought up above this
break check and do:

if (!list_empty(&sb->s_more_io) || !list_empty(&sb->s_io))
        wbc->more_io = 1;

Am I just misunderstanding the intent of more_io ?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-30  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-28 19:11 Bug in kernel 2.6.31, Slow wb_kupdate writeout Chad Talbott
2009-07-28 21:49 ` Martin Bligh
2009-07-29  7:15   ` Martin Bligh
2009-07-29 11:43     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-29 14:11       ` Martin Bligh
2009-07-30  1:06         ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-30  1:12           ` Martin Bligh
2009-07-30  1:57             ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-30  2:59               ` Martin Bligh
2009-07-30  4:08                 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-30 19:55                   ` Martin Bligh
2009-08-01  2:02                     ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-30  0:19       ` Martin Bligh [this message]
2009-07-30  1:28         ` Martin Bligh
2009-07-30  2:09           ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-30  2:57             ` Martin Bligh
2009-07-30  3:19               ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-30 20:33                 ` Martin Bligh
2009-08-01  2:58                   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-08-01  4:10                   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-30  1:49         ` Wu Fengguang
2009-07-30 21:39 ` Jens Axboe
2009-07-30 22:01   ` Martin Bligh
2009-07-30 22:17     ` Jens Axboe
2009-07-30 22:34       ` Martin Bligh
2009-07-30 22:43         ` Jens Axboe
2009-07-30 22:48           ` Martin Bligh
2009-07-31  7:50             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-01  4:03             ` Wu Fengguang
2009-08-01  4:53               ` Wu Fengguang
2009-08-01  5:03                 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-08-01  4:02         ` Wu Fengguang

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