On Mon 22-08-16 13:35:02, Josef Bacik wrote: > Now that we have metadata counters in the VM, we need to provide a way to kick > writeback on dirty metadata. Introduce super_operations->write_metadata. This > allows file systems to deal with writing back any dirty metadata we need based > on the writeback needs of the system. Since there is no inode to key off of we > need a list in the bdi for dirty super blocks to be added. From there we can > find any dirty sb's on the bdi we are currently doing writeback on and call into > their ->write_metadata callback. > > Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx> ... > @@ -1639,11 +1664,38 @@ static long __writeback_inodes_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb, > > /* refer to the same tests at the end of writeback_sb_inodes */ > if (wrote) { > - if (time_is_before_jiffies(start_time + HZ / 10UL)) > - break; > - if (work->nr_pages <= 0) > + if (time_is_before_jiffies(start_time + HZ / 10UL) || > + work->nr_pages <= 0) { > + done = true; > break; > + } > + } > + } > + > + if (!done && wb_stat(wb, WB_METADATA_DIRTY)) { > + LIST_HEAD(list); > + > + spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock); > + spin_lock(&wb->bdi->sb_list_lock); > + list_splice_init(&wb->bdi->dirty_sb_list, &list); > + while (!list_empty(&list)) { > + struct super_block *sb; > + > + sb = list_first_entry(&list, struct super_block, > + s_bdi_list); > + list_move_tail(&sb->s_bdi_list, > + &wb->bdi->dirty_sb_list); > + if (!sb->s_op->write_metadata) > + continue; > + if (!trylock_super(sb)) > + continue; > + spin_unlock(&wb->bdi->sb_list_lock); > + wrote += writeback_sb_metadata(sb, wb, work); > + spin_lock(&wb->bdi->sb_list_lock); > + up_read(&sb->s_umount); > } > + spin_unlock(&wb->bdi->sb_list_lock); > + spin_lock(&wb->list_lock); > } > /* Leave any unwritten inodes on b_io */ > return wrote; So this will hook metadata writeback into the periodic writeback but when work->sb is set, metadata won't be written because in that case we call writeback_sb_inodes() directly. So you need to call writeback_sb_metadata() from wb_writeback() in that case as well. ... > diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h > index f3f0b4c8..c063ac6 100644 > --- a/include/linux/fs.h > +++ b/include/linux/fs.h > @@ -1430,6 +1430,8 @@ struct super_block { > > spinlock_t s_inode_wblist_lock; > struct list_head s_inodes_wb; /* writeback inodes */ > + > + struct list_head s_bdi_list; Maybe call this s_bdi_dirty_list? Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html