Re: [PATCH 5/6] writeback: fix queue_io() ordering

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On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:07:01 +0800
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
> 
> 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>

I assumed you didn't mean to sign this twice so I removed this signoff.

> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/fs-writeback.c |    7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- linux-next.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c	2010-07-11 09:13:31.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux-next/fs/fs-writeback.c	2010-07-11 09:13:32.000000000 +0800
> @@ -252,11 +252,14 @@ 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);
>  }

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