On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:09:34PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > Introduce writeback_control.inodes_written to count successful > ->write_inode() calls. A non-zero value means there are some > progress on writeback, in which case more writeback will be tried. > > This prevents aborting a background writeback work prematually when > the current set of inodes for IO happen to be metadata-only dirty. > > Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Seems reasonable. Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>