Re: [PATCHv3 4/6] mm: allow for outstanding swap writeback accounting

Minchan Kim
2013-01-29T00:01:17Z

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 03:49:25PM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote:
> To prevent flooding the swap device with writebacks, frontswap
> backends need to count and limit the number of outstanding
> writebacks. The incrementing of the counter can be done before
> the call to __swap_writepage(). However, the caller must receive
> a notification when the writeback completes in order to decrement
> the counter.
>
> To achieve this functionality, this patch modifies
> __swap_writepage() to take the bio completion callback function
> as an argument.
>
> end_swap_bio_write(), the normal bio completion function, is also
> made non-static so that code doing the accounting can call it
> after the accounting is done.
>
> Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim