On Mon, Aug 31 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 02:14:43PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > -static void generic_sync_bdi_inodes(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
> > - struct writeback_control *wbc,
> > - struct super_block *sb,
> > - int is_blkdev_sb)
> > +void generic_sync_bdi_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
> > + struct writeback_control *wbc)
>
> I think we're better off having the sb also in the writeback control.
> Now that the inodes actually hang off the backing device it's just
> another parameter to limit the amount of writeback done.
Sure no problem, I'll shove that in there.
> > + /*
> > + * If this fs is currently being u/remounted, leave the
> > + * inode alone
> > + */
> > + if (!down_read_trylock(&inode->i_sb->s_umount)) {
> > + requeue_io(inode);
> > + continue;
> > + }
>
> This looks correct to me, but I wonder if the increased traffic on
> s_umount will hurt us in some way for the writeback of lots of small
> files.
I didn't spot anything today, but I didn't have that many files in
flight (lots of cpus, though). But yes, something to keep an eye on.
> > void generic_sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
> > struct writeback_control *wbc)
> > {
> > - const int is_blkdev_sb = sb_is_blkdev_sb(sb);
> > - struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
> > -
> > - mutex_lock(&bdi_lock);
> > - list_for_each_entry(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list)
> > - generic_sync_bdi_inodes(bdi, wbc, sb, is_blkdev_sb);
> > - mutex_unlock(&bdi_lock);
> > + if (wbc->bdi)
> > + generic_sync_bdi_inodes(sb, wbc);
> > + else
> > + bdi_writeback_all(sb, wbc);
>
> With the sb in writeback_control this gem would also be gone.
Yeah :)
> Btw, some ordering in the patch series seems odd, e.g. you have
> most of the high level flushing code above generic_sync_wb_inodes
> which makes reading fs-writeback.c rather inconvenient. And also
> leads to having two forward declarations for generic_sync_wb_inodes
> beeing added inside the file.
OK, will look into cleaning that up.
--
Jens Axboe
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