This ensures large dirty files can be written in the full 4MB writeback chunk size, rather than whatever remained quota in wbc->nr_to_write. CC: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> CC: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 11 +++++++++++ include/linux/writeback.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+) --- linux-next.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c 2011-05-04 16:00:45.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-next/fs/fs-writeback.c 2011-05-04 16:01:00.000000000 +0800 @@ -346,6 +346,8 @@ writeback_single_inode(struct inode *ino struct writeback_control *wbc) { struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping; + long per_file_limit = wbc->per_file_limit; + long uninitialized_var(nr_to_write); unsigned dirty; int ret; @@ -385,8 +387,16 @@ writeback_single_inode(struct inode *ino spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock); + if (per_file_limit) { + nr_to_write = wbc->nr_to_write; + wbc->nr_to_write = per_file_limit; + } + ret = do_writepages(mapping, wbc); + if (per_file_limit) + wbc->nr_to_write += nr_to_write - per_file_limit; + /* * Make sure to wait on the data before writing out the metadata. * This is important for filesystems that modify metadata on data @@ -710,6 +720,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writ wbc.more_io = 0; wbc.nr_to_write = write_chunk; + wbc.per_file_limit = write_chunk; wbc.pages_skipped = 0; wbc.inodes_cleaned = 0; --- linux-next.orig/include/linux/writeback.h 2011-05-04 16:00:45.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-next/include/linux/writeback.h 2011-05-04 16:01:00.000000000 +0800 @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ struct writeback_control { older than this */ long nr_to_write; /* Write this many pages, and decrement this for each page written */ + long per_file_limit; /* Write this many pages for one file */ long pages_skipped; /* Pages which were not written */ long inodes_cleaned; /* # of inodes cleaned */ -- 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