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From: "Jayson R. King" <dev@jaysonking.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stable team <stable@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jayson King <dev@jaysonking.com>
Subject: [07/11] ext4: Use tag dirty lookup during mpage_da_submit_io
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:33:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B88BC9C.50502@jaysonking.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B88BA1B.4050500@jaysonking.com>

From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue Oct 14 09:20:19 2008 -0400
Subject: ext4: Use tag dirty lookup during mpage_da_submit_io

commit af6f029d3836eb7264cd3fbb13a6baf0e5fdb5ea upstream.

This enables us to drop the range_cont writeback mode
use from ext4_da_writepages.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jayson R. King <dev@jaysonking.com>

---
 fs/ext4/inode.c |   30 +++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff -urNp linux-2.6.27.orig/fs/ext4/inode.c linux-2.6.27/fs/ext4/inode.c
--- linux-2.6.27.orig/fs/ext4/inode.c	2010-02-26 14:24:53.269252744 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.27/fs/ext4/inode.c	2010-02-26 14:25:01.277252724 -0600
@@ -1699,17 +1699,23 @@ static int mpage_da_submit_io(struct mpa
 
 	pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
 	while (index <= end) {
-		nr_pages = pagevec_lookup(&pvec, mapping, index, PAGEVEC_SIZE);
+		/*
+		 * We can use PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY lookup here because
+		 * even though we have cleared the dirty flag on the page
+		 * We still keep the page in the radix tree with tag
+		 * PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY. See clear_page_dirty_for_io.
+		 * The PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY is cleared in set_page_writeback
+		 * which is called via the below writepage callback.
+		 */
+		nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index,
+					PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY,
+					min(end - index,
+					(pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1);
 		if (nr_pages == 0)
 			break;
 		for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
 			struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
 
-			index = page->index;
-			if (index > end)
-				break;
-			index++;
-
 			BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
 			BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
 
@@ -2442,7 +2448,6 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct add
 			      struct writeback_control *wbc)
 {
 	handle_t *handle = NULL;
-	loff_t range_start = 0;
 	struct mpage_da_data mpd;
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	int needed_blocks, ret = 0, nr_to_writebump = 0;
@@ -2481,14 +2486,7 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct add
 		wbc->nr_to_write = sbi->s_mb_stream_request;
 	}
 
-	if (!wbc->range_cyclic)
-		/*
-		 * If range_cyclic is not set force range_cont
-		 * and save the old writeback_index
-		 */
-		wbc->range_cont = 1;
 
-	range_start =  wbc->range_start;
 	pages_skipped = wbc->pages_skipped;
 
 	mpd.wbc = wbc;
@@ -2559,9 +2557,8 @@ restart_loop:
 		wbc->nr_to_write = to_write;
 	}
 
-	if (wbc->range_cont && (pages_skipped != wbc->pages_skipped)) {
+	if (!wbc->range_cyclic && (pages_skipped != wbc->pages_skipped)) {
 		/* We skipped pages in this loop */
-		wbc->range_start = range_start;
 		wbc->nr_to_write = to_write +
 				wbc->pages_skipped - pages_skipped;
 		wbc->pages_skipped = pages_skipped;
@@ -2570,7 +2567,6 @@ restart_loop:
 
 out_writepages:
 	wbc->nr_to_write = to_write - nr_to_writebump;
-	wbc->range_start = range_start;
 	return ret;
 }
 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-27  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-27  6:22 [00/11] fix ext4 deadlock on 2.6.27.y Jayson R. King
2010-02-27  6:32 ` [01/11] ext4: invalidate pages if delalloc block allocation fails Jayson R. King
2010-02-27  6:32 ` [02/11] percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set() Jayson R. King
2010-02-27  6:32 ` [03/11] ext4: Make sure all the block allocation paths reserve blocks Jayson R. King
2010-02-27  6:32 ` [04/11] ext4: Add percpu dirty block accounting Jayson R. King
2010-02-27  6:32 ` [05/11] ext4: Retry block reservation Jayson R. King
2010-02-27  6:32 ` [06/11] ext4: Retry block allocation if we have free blocks left Jayson R. King
2010-02-27  6:33 ` Jayson R. King [this message]
2010-02-27  6:33 ` [08/11] vfs: Remove the range_cont writeback mode Jayson R. King
2010-02-27  6:33 ` [09/11] vfs: Add no_nrwrite_index_update writeback control flag Jayson R. King
2010-02-27  6:33 ` [10/11] ext4: Fix file fragmentation during large file write Jayson R. King
2010-02-27  6:33 ` [11/11] ext4: Implement range_cyclic in ext4_da_writepages instead of write_cache_pages Jayson R. King
2010-02-28  3:16 ` [00/11] fix ext4 deadlock on 2.6.27.y Greg KH
2010-03-15 20:09   ` [stable] " Greg KH
2010-03-15 23:17     ` tytso

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