From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx> Currently bdi threads use local variable 'last_active' which stores last time when the bdi thread did some useful work. Move this local variable to 'struct bdi_writeback'. This is just a preparation for the further patches which will make the forker thread decide when bdi threads should be killed. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 6 +++--- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 13 +++++++------ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index eaef5c9..53e1028 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -800,12 +800,12 @@ int bdi_writeback_thread(void *data) { struct bdi_writeback *wb = data; struct backing_dev_info *bdi = wb->bdi; - unsigned long last_active = jiffies; unsigned long wait_jiffies = -1UL; long pages_written; current->flags |= PF_FLUSHER | PF_SWAPWRITE; set_freezable(); + wb->last_active = jiffies; /* * Our parent may run at a different priority, just set us to normal @@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ int bdi_writeback_thread(void *data) trace_writeback_pages_written(pages_written); if (pages_written) - last_active = jiffies; + wb->last_active = jiffies; else if (wait_jiffies != -1UL) { unsigned long max_idle; @@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ int bdi_writeback_thread(void *data) * recreated automatically. */ max_idle = max(5UL * 60 * HZ, wait_jiffies); - if (time_after(jiffies, max_idle + last_active)) + if (time_after(jiffies, max_idle + wb->last_active)) break; } diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h index 95ecb2b..71b6223 100644 --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h @@ -45,15 +45,16 @@ enum bdi_stat_item { #define BDI_STAT_BATCH (8*(1+ilog2(nr_cpu_ids))) struct bdi_writeback { - struct backing_dev_info *bdi; /* our parent bdi */ + struct backing_dev_info *bdi; /* our parent bdi */ unsigned int nr; - unsigned long last_old_flush; /* last old data flush */ + unsigned long last_old_flush; /* last old data flush */ + unsigned long last_active; /* last time bdi thread was active */ - struct task_struct *task; /* writeback thread */ - struct list_head b_dirty; /* dirty inodes */ - struct list_head b_io; /* parked for writeback */ - struct list_head b_more_io; /* parked for more writeback */ + struct task_struct *task; /* writeback thread */ + struct list_head b_dirty; /* dirty inodes */ + struct list_head b_io; /* parked for writeback */ + struct list_head b_more_io; /* parked for more writeback */ }; struct backing_dev_info { -- 1.7.1.1 -- 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