On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:32:56PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> The range_cyclic writeback mode use the address_space
> writeback_index as the start index for writeback. With
> delayed allocation we were updating writeback_index
> wrongly resulting in highly fragmented file. Number of
> extents reduced from 4000 to 27 for a 3GB file with
> the below patch.
>
> The patch also removes the range_cont writeback mode
> added for ext4 delayed allocation. Instead we add
> two new flags in writeback_control which control
> the behaviour of write_cache_pages.
>
Need the below update. Will send the updated patch to ext4 list.
[2.6.27-rc9-1-working@linux-review-ext]$ git diff
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index a85930c..4f359f4 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
goto retry;
}
if (!wbc->no_index_update &&
- (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))) {
+ (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && nr_to_write > 0))) {
mapping->writeback_index = index;
}
if (!wbc->no_nrwrite_update)
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