The patch titled
writeback: fix time ordering of the per superblock inode lists 8
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-inode-lists-8.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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Subject: writeback: fix time ordering of the per superblock inode lists 8
From: Fengguang Wu <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Streamline the management of dirty inode lists and fix time ordering bugs.
The writeback logic used to move not-yet-expired dirty inodes from s_dirty to
s_io, *only to* move them back. The move-inodes-back-and-forth thing is a
mess, which is eliminated by this patch.
The new scheme is:
- s_dirty acts as a time ordered io delaying queue;
- s_io/s_more_io together acts as an io dispatching queue.
On kupdate writeback, we pull some inodes from s_dirty to s_io at the start of
every full scan of s_io. Otherwise (i.e. for sync/throttle/background
writeback), we always pull from s_dirty on each run (a partial scan).
Note that the line
list_splice_init(&sb->s_more_io, &sb->s_io);
is moved to queue_io() to leave s_io empty. Otherwise a big dirtied file will
sit in s_io for a long time, preventing new expired inodes to get in.
Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fs-writeback.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/fs-writeback.c~writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-inode-lists-8 fs/fs-writeback.c
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c~writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-inode-lists-8
+++ a/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ void __mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *in
goto out;
/*
- * If the inode was already on s_dirty or s_io, don't
+ * If the inode was already on s_dirty/s_io/s_more_io, don't
* reposition it (that would break s_dirty time-ordering).
*/
if (!was_dirty) {
@@ -173,6 +173,33 @@ static void requeue_io(struct inode *ino
}
/*
+ * Move expired dirty inodes from @delaying_queue to @dispatch_queue.
+ */
+static void move_expired_inodes(struct list_head *delaying_queue,
+ struct list_head *dispatch_queue,
+ unsigned long *older_than_this)
+{
+ while (!list_empty(delaying_queue)) {
+ struct inode *inode = list_entry(delaying_queue->prev,
+ struct inode, i_list);
+ if (older_than_this &&
+ time_after(inode->dirtied_when, *older_than_this))
+ break;
+ list_move(&inode->i_list, dispatch_queue);
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Queue all expired dirty inodes for io, eldest first.
+ */
+static void queue_io(struct super_block *sb,
+ unsigned long *older_than_this)
+{
+ list_splice_init(&sb->s_more_io, sb->s_io.prev);
+ move_expired_inodes(&sb->s_dirty, &sb->s_io, older_than_this);
+}
+
+/*
* Write a single inode's dirty pages and inode data out to disk.
* If `wait' is set, wait on the writeout.
*
@@ -222,7 +249,7 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode,
/*
* We didn't write back all the pages. nfs_writepages()
* sometimes bales out without doing anything. Redirty
- * the inode. It is moved from s_io onto s_dirty.
+ * the inode; Move it from s_io onto s_more_io/s_dirty.
*/
/*
* akpm: if the caller was the kupdate function we put
@@ -235,10 +262,9 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode,
*/
if (wbc->for_kupdate) {
/*
- * For the kupdate function we leave the inode
- * at the head of sb_dirty so it will get more
- * writeout as soon as the queue becomes
- * uncongested.
+ * For the kupdate function we move the inode
+ * to s_more_io so it will get more writeout as
+ * soon as the queue becomes uncongested.
*/
inode->i_state |= I_DIRTY_PAGES;
requeue_io(inode);
@@ -296,10 +322,10 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *i
/*
* We're skipping this inode because it's locked, and we're not
- * doing writeback-for-data-integrity. Move it to the head of
- * s_dirty so that writeback can proceed with the other inodes
- * on s_io. We'll have another go at writing back this inode
- * when the s_dirty iodes get moved back onto s_io.
+ * doing writeback-for-data-integrity. Move it to s_more_io so
+ * that writeback can proceed with the other inodes on s_io.
+ * We'll have another go at writing back this inode when we
+ * completed a full scan of s_io.
*/
requeue_io(inode);
@@ -366,7 +392,7 @@ sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, s
const unsigned long start = jiffies; /* livelock avoidance */
if (!wbc->for_kupdate || list_empty(&sb->s_io))
- list_splice_init(&sb->s_dirty, &sb->s_io);
+ queue_io(sb, wbc->older_than_this);
while (!list_empty(&sb->s_io)) {
struct inode *inode = list_entry(sb->s_io.prev,
@@ -411,13 +437,6 @@ sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, s
if (time_after(inode->dirtied_when, start))
break;
- /* Was this inode dirtied too recently? */
- if (wbc->older_than_this && time_after(inode->dirtied_when,
- *wbc->older_than_this)) {
- list_splice_init(&sb->s_io, sb->s_dirty.prev);
- break;
- }
-
/* Is another pdflush already flushing this queue? */
if (current_is_pdflush() && !writeback_acquire(bdi))
break;
@@ -446,10 +465,6 @@ sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, s
if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0)
break;
}
-
- if (list_empty(&sb->s_io))
- list_splice_init(&sb->s_more_io, &sb->s_io);
-
return; /* Leave any unwritten inodes on s_io */
}
@@ -459,7 +474,7 @@ sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, s
* Note:
* We don't need to grab a reference to superblock here. If it has non-empty
* ->s_dirty it's hadn't been killed yet and kill_super() won't proceed
- * past sync_inodes_sb() until both the ->s_dirty and ->s_io lists are
+ * past sync_inodes_sb() until the ->s_dirty/s_io/s_more_io lists are all
* empty. Since __sync_single_inode() regains inode_lock before it finally moves
* inode from superblock lists we are OK.
*
_
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