[PATCH 2/4] xfs: Avoid inodes in reclaim when flushing from inode cache

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

THe reclaim code will handle flushing of dirty inodes before
reclaim occurs, so avoid them when determining whether an inode is
a candidate for flushing to disk when walking the radix trees.
This is based on a test patch from Christoph Hellwig.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
---
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c |   31 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
index 2ee1265..6946978 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
@@ -180,26 +180,31 @@ xfs_sync_inode_valid(
 	struct xfs_perag	*pag)
 {
 	struct inode		*inode = VFS_I(ip);
+	int			error = EFSCORRUPTED;
 
 	/* nothing to sync during shutdown */
-	if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ip->i_mount)) {
-		read_unlock(&pag->pag_ici_lock);
-		return EFSCORRUPTED;
-	}
+	if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ip->i_mount))
+		goto out_unlock;
 
-	/* If we can't get a reference on the inode, it must be in reclaim. */
-	if (!igrab(inode)) {
-		read_unlock(&pag->pag_ici_lock);
-		return ENOENT;
-	}
-	read_unlock(&pag->pag_ici_lock);
+	/* avoid new or reclaimable inodes. Leave for reclaim code to flush */
+	error = ENOENT;
+	if (xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_INEW | XFS_IRECLAIMABLE | XFS_IRECLAIM))
+		goto out_unlock;
 
-	if (is_bad_inode(inode) || xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_INEW)) {
+	/* If we can't grab the inode, it must on it's way to reclaim. */
+	if (!igrab(inode))
+		goto out_unlock;
+
+	if (is_bad_inode(inode)) {
 		IRELE(ip);
-		return ENOENT;
+		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
-	return 0;
+	/* inode is valid */
+	error = 0;
+out_unlock:
+	read_unlock(&pag->pag_ici_lock);
+	return error;
 }
 
 STATIC int
-- 
1.6.5

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