From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] writeback: remove .nonblocking and .encountered_congestion
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 15:37:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110505133743.GD5323@quack.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110505133002.GA7724@localhost>
On Thu 05-05-11 21:30:02, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> [allyesconfig compile tested]
> [it modifies 3 filesystems all at once, is it OK?]
>
> Remove two unused struct writeback_control fields:
>
> .encountered_congestion (completley unused)
> .nonblocking (never set, checked/showed in XFS,NFS/btrfs)
>
> Proposed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Yep. Makes sense.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
BTW: I've noticed you removed ->for_background check from
nfs_write_inode(). That's OK because for_background => WB_SYNC_NONE but I
guess you should mention it in the changelog.
Honza
> ---
> fs/nfs/write.c | 3 +--
> fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/writeback.h | 2 --
> include/trace/events/btrfs.h | 6 ++----
> 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-next.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c 2011-05-05 21:10:01.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux-next/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c 2011-05-05 21:10:37.000000000 +0800
> @@ -970,7 +970,7 @@ xfs_vm_writepage(
> offset = page_offset(page);
> type = IO_OVERWRITE;
>
> - if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE && wbc->nonblocking)
> + if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE)
> nonblocking = 1;
>
> do {
> --- linux-next.orig/include/trace/events/btrfs.h 2011-05-05 21:07:31.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux-next/include/trace/events/btrfs.h 2011-05-05 21:09:47.000000000 +0800
> @@ -284,7 +284,6 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(btrfs__writepage,
> __field( long, pages_skipped )
> __field( loff_t, range_start )
> __field( loff_t, range_end )
> - __field( char, nonblocking )
> __field( char, for_kupdate )
> __field( char, for_reclaim )
> __field( char, range_cyclic )
> @@ -299,7 +298,6 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(btrfs__writepage,
> __entry->pages_skipped = wbc->pages_skipped;
> __entry->range_start = wbc->range_start;
> __entry->range_end = wbc->range_end;
> - __entry->nonblocking = wbc->nonblocking;
> __entry->for_kupdate = wbc->for_kupdate;
> __entry->for_reclaim = wbc->for_reclaim;
> __entry->range_cyclic = wbc->range_cyclic;
> @@ -310,13 +308,13 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(btrfs__writepage,
>
> TP_printk("root = %llu(%s), ino = %lu, page_index = %lu, "
> "nr_to_write = %ld, pages_skipped = %ld, range_start = %llu, "
> - "range_end = %llu, nonblocking = %d, for_kupdate = %d, "
> + "range_end = %llu, for_kupdate = %d, "
> "for_reclaim = %d, range_cyclic = %d, writeback_index = %lu",
> show_root_type(__entry->root_objectid),
> (unsigned long)__entry->ino, __entry->index,
> __entry->nr_to_write, __entry->pages_skipped,
> __entry->range_start, __entry->range_end,
> - __entry->nonblocking, __entry->for_kupdate,
> + __entry->for_kupdate,
> __entry->for_reclaim, __entry->range_cyclic,
> (unsigned long)__entry->writeback_index)
> );
> --- linux-next.orig/fs/nfs/write.c 2011-05-05 21:10:52.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux-next/fs/nfs/write.c 2011-05-05 21:11:19.000000000 +0800
> @@ -1564,8 +1564,7 @@ int nfs_write_inode(struct inode *inode,
> int status;
> bool sync = true;
>
> - if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE || wbc->nonblocking ||
> - wbc->for_background)
> + if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE)
> sync = false;
>
> status = pnfs_layoutcommit_inode(inode, sync);
> --- linux-next.orig/include/linux/writeback.h 2011-05-05 21:07:16.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux-next/include/linux/writeback.h 2011-05-05 21:13:20.000000000 +0800
> @@ -36,8 +36,6 @@ struct writeback_control {
> loff_t range_start;
> loff_t range_end;
>
> - unsigned nonblocking:1; /* Don't get stuck on request queues */
> - unsigned encountered_congestion:1; /* An output: a queue is full */
> unsigned for_kupdate:1; /* A kupdate writeback */
> unsigned for_background:1; /* A background writeback */
> unsigned tagged_sync:1; /* do livelock prevention for sync */
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-05 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-05 13:30 [PATCH] writeback: remove .nonblocking and .encountered_congestion Wu Fengguang
2011-05-05 13:37 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2011-05-05 13:59 ` Wu Fengguang
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