On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 06:06:44AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > : writeback_single_inode(inode, wb, &wbc); > : work->nr_pages -= write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write; > : wrote += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write; > : if (wbc.pages_skipped) { > : /* > : * writeback is not making progress due to locked > : * buffers. Skip this inode for now. > : */ > : redirty_tail(inode, wb); > : - } > : + } else if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY)) > : + wrote++; > > It looks a bit more clean to do > > : wrote += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write; > : + if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY)) > : + wrote++; > : if (wbc.pages_skipped) { > : /* > : * writeback is not making progress due to locked > : * buffers. Skip this inode for now. > : */ > : redirty_tail(inode, wb); > : } But it's still in the wrong place - such post-write inode dirty processing is supposed to be isolated to writeback_single_inode(). Spreading it across multiple locations is not, IMO, the nicest thing to do... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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