The patch titled mm: write_cache_pages early loop termination has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-write_cache_pages-early-loop-termination.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mm: write_cache_pages early loop termination From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> We'd like to break out of the loop early in many situations, however the existing code has been setting mapping->writeback_index past the final page in the pagevec lookup for cyclic writeback. This is a problem if we don't process all pages up to the final page. Currently the code mostly keeps writeback_index reasonable and hacked around this by not breaking out of the loop or writing pages outside the range in these cases. Keep track of a real "done index" that enables us to terminate the loop in a much more flexible manner. Needed by the subsequent patch to preserve writepage errors, and then further patches to break out of the loop early for other reasons. However there are no functional changes with this patch alone. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page-writeback.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~mm-write_cache_pages-early-loop-termination mm/page-writeback.c --- a/mm/page-writeback.c~mm-write_cache_pages-early-loop-termination +++ a/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -871,6 +871,7 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_spa pgoff_t uninitialized_var(writeback_index); pgoff_t index; pgoff_t end; /* Inclusive */ + pgoff_t done_index; int cycled; int range_whole = 0; long nr_to_write = wbc->nr_to_write; @@ -897,6 +898,7 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_spa cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */ } retry: + done_index = index; while (!done && (index <= end) && (nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, @@ -906,6 +908,8 @@ retry: for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) { struct page *page = pvec.pages[i]; + done_index = page->index + 1; + /* * At this point we hold neither mapping->tree_lock nor * lock on the page itself: the page may be truncated or @@ -968,7 +972,7 @@ retry: } if (!wbc->no_nrwrite_index_update) { if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && nr_to_write > 0)) - mapping->writeback_index = index; + mapping->writeback_index = done_index; wbc->nr_to_write = nr_to_write; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from npiggin@xxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry.patch page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry-fix.patch page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry-fix-fix.patch radix-tree-gang-set-if-tagged-operation.patch reiser4.patch fs-symlink-write_begin-allocation-context-fix-reiser4-fix.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html