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authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>2010-06-09 10:37:18 +1000
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-06-08 18:12:44 -0700
commit0b5649278e39a068aaf91399941bab1b4a4a3cc2 (patch)
tree3fd2c782385137f5b135c07149de772e207fdaf8 /include/linux/writeback.h
parent8d7458daea2a6809d32418bf489b949d23de99ea (diff)
writeback: pay attention to wbc->nr_to_write in write_cache_pages
If a filesystem writes more than one page in ->writepage, write_cache_pages fails to notice this and continues to attempt writeback when wbc->nr_to_write has gone negative - this trace was captured from XFS: wbc_writeback_start: towrt=1024 wbc_writepage: towrt=1024 wbc_writepage: towrt=0 wbc_writepage: towrt=-1 wbc_writepage: towrt=-5 wbc_writepage: towrt=-21 wbc_writepage: towrt=-85 This has adverse effects on filesystem writeback behaviour. write_cache_pages() needs to terminate after a certain number of pages are written, not after a certain number of calls to ->writepage are made. This is a regression introduced by 17bc6c30cf6bfffd816bdc53682dd46fc34a2cf4 ("vfs: Add no_nrwrite_index_update writeback control flag"), but cannot be reverted directly due to subsequent bug fixes that have gone in on top of it. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/writeback.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/writeback.h9
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index f64134653a8..d63ef8f9609 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -56,15 +56,6 @@ struct writeback_control {
unsigned for_reclaim:1; /* Invoked from the page allocator */
unsigned range_cyclic:1; /* range_start is cyclic */
unsigned more_io:1; /* more io to be dispatched */
- /*
- * write_cache_pages() won't update wbc->nr_to_write and
- * mapping->writeback_index if no_nrwrite_index_update
- * is set. write_cache_pages() may write more than we
- * requested and we want to make sure nr_to_write and
- * writeback_index are updated in a consistent manner
- * so we use a single control to update them
- */
- unsigned no_nrwrite_index_update:1;
};
/*