From f11c9c5c259cb2c3d698548dc3936f773ab1f5b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Edward Shishkin Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:09:47 -0800 Subject: vfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb() Do not pin/unpin superblock for every inode in writeback_inodes_wb(), pin it for the whole group of inodes which belong to the same superblock and call writeback_sb_inodes() handler for them. Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/writeback.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/writeback.h') diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index 76e8903cd20..36520ded3e0 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ struct writeback_control { enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode; unsigned long *older_than_this; /* If !NULL, only write back inodes older than this */ + unsigned long wb_start; /* Time writeback_inodes_wb was + called. This is needed to avoid + extra jobs and livelock */ long nr_to_write; /* Write this many pages, and decrement this for each page written */ long pages_skipped; /* Pages which were not written */ -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2