On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:53:30PM +0800, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 09-09-09 22:51:43, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > This was not a bug, since b_io is empty for kupdate writeback.
> > The next patch will do requeue_io() for non-kupdate writeback,
> > so let's fix it.
> But doesn't this patch also need your "anti-starvation" patch?
Honza, can you show me that patch?
> Looking into the code, we put inode to b_more_io when nr_to_write
> drops to zero and this way we'd just start writing it again
> in the next round...
I'm confused. It's OK to start it in next round. Starvation can
occur if we start it immediately in the next writeback_inodes()
invocation. How can that happen with this patch?
Thanks,
Fengguang
> Honza
> >
> > CC: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/fs-writeback.c | 7 +++++--
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > --- linux.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c 2009-09-09 21:41:14.000000000 +0800
> > +++ linux/fs/fs-writeback.c 2009-09-09 21:45:15.000000000 +0800
> > @@ -313,11 +313,14 @@ static void move_expired_inodes(struct l
> > }
> >
> > /*
> > - * Queue all expired dirty inodes for io, eldest first.
> > + * Queue all expired dirty inodes for io, eldest first:
> > + * (newly dirtied) => b_dirty inodes
> > + * => b_more_io inodes
> > + * => remaining inodes in b_io => (dequeue for sync)
> > */
> > static void queue_io(struct bdi_writeback *wb, unsigned long *older_than_this)
> > {
> > - list_splice_init(&wb->b_more_io, wb->b_io.prev);
> > + list_splice_init(&wb->b_more_io, &wb->b_io);
> > move_expired_inodes(&wb->b_dirty, &wb->b_io, older_than_this);
> > }
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> --
> Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> SUSE Labs, CR
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