On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:31:27 +0800
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > + } else if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) {
> > > + /*
> > > + * At least XFS will redirty the inode during the
> > > + * writeback (delalloc) and on io completion (isize).
> > > + */
> > > + redirty_tail(inode);
> >
> > I'd drop the mention of XFS here - any filesystem that does delayed
> > allocation or unwritten extent conversion after Io completion will
> > cause this. Perhaps make the comment:
> >
> > /*
> > * Filesystems can dirty the inode during writeback
> > * operations, such as delayed allocation during submission
> > * or metadata updates after data IO completion.
> > */
>
> Thanks, comments updated accordingly.
>
> ---
> writeback: don't redirty tail an inode with dirty pages
>
> This avoids delaying writeback for an expired (XFS) inode with lots of
> dirty pages, but no active dirtier at the moment. Previously we only do
> that for the kupdate case.
>
You didn't actually explain the _reason_ for making this change.
Please always do that.
The patch is... surprisingly complicated, although the end result
looks OK. This is not aided by the partial duplication between
mapping_tagged(PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY) and I_DIRTY_PAGES. I don't think
we can easily remove I_DIRTY_PAGES because it's used for the
did-someone-just-dirty-a-page test here.
This code is way too complex and fragile and I fear that anything we do
to it will break something :(
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