linux-kernel - [PATCH 00/13] writeback bug fixes and simplifications take 2

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Date:	Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:36:37 +0800
From:	Fengguang Wu <wfg@...l.ustc.edu.cn>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 00/13] writeback bug fixes and simplifications take 2

Andrew,

This patchset mainly polishes the writeback queuing policies.
The main goals are:

(1) small files should not be starved by big dirty files
(2) sync as fast as possible for not-blocked inodes/pages
    - don't leave them out; no congestion_wait() in between them
(3) avoid busy iowait for blocked inodes
    - retry them in the next go of s_io(maybe at the next wakeup of pdflush)

The role of the queues:

s_dirty:   park for dirtied_when expiration
s_io:      park for io submission
s_more_io: for big dirty inodes, they will be retried in this run of pdflush
           (it ensures fairness between small/large files)
s_more_io_wait: for blocked inodes, they will be picked up in next run of s_io


This patchset is in better shape, but still not ready for merge.
It begins with:

	[PATCH 01/13] writeback: revert 2e6883bdf49abd0e7f0d9b6297fc3be7ebb2250b      
	[PATCH 02/13] writeback: clear PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY for truncated page in block_write_full_page()

Introduces more_io/more_io_wait based policies:

	[PATCH 03/13] writeback: introduce writeback_control.more_io                  
	[PATCH 04/13] writeback: introduce super_block.s_more_io_wait                 
	[PATCH 05/13] writeback: merge duplicate code into writeback_some_pages()     
	[PATCH 06/13] writeback: defer writeback on not-all-pages-written             
	[PATCH 07/13] writeback: defer writeback on locked inode                      
	[PATCH 08/13] writeback: defer writeback on locked buffers                    
	[PATCH 09/13] writeback: requeue_io() on redirtied inode                      

And finishes with some code cleanups:

	[PATCH 10/13] writeback: introduce queue_dirty()                              
	[PATCH 11/13] writeback: queue_dirty() on memory-backed bdi                   
	[PATCH 12/13] writeback: remove redirty_tail()                                
	[PATCH 13/13] writeback: cleanup __sync_single_inode()                        

Diffstat:

 fs/buffer.c         |    2 
 fs/fs-writeback.c   |  121 +++++++++++++++---------------------------
 fs/super.c          |    1 
 include/linux/fs.h  |    1 
 mm/page-writeback.c |   46 +++++++--------
 5 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)

Regards,
Fengguang Wu
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