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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:20:09 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: merging the per-bdi writeback patchset
On Tue, Jun 23 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:12:10PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > Last time we discussed this you said you're happy with 2.6.32. I really
> > > > want to take a more detailed look and put that on the not so urgent list
> > > > because ou didn't seem to rush for .31. So my vote goes for waiting a
> > > > bit longer.
> > >
> > > Yeah, 2.6.32 works for me too, .31 would have been nice though so I
> > > don't have to carry it around anymore. But either is fine, if you and
> > > Andrew want more time to review this stuff, then lets just settle for
> > > .32.
> >
> > Yes, I'd really prefer more time. I also expect to come up with some
> > more changes in that area. Your patch makes the differences between
> > kupdate and pdflush-stye writeback look even more ugly then it already
> > is, so I want to see i there's some nicer way to handle it. I also want
>
> Good point, should be easy enough to fold the two together.
Something like the below, untested except for checking that it compiles.
So this doesn't dual-path the two reasons we wake up to flush data
anymore, rather it just flushes kupdated style if we didn't have any
work to do (or did any work).
fs-writeback.c | 111 +++++++++++++++----------------------------------
1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index d589db3..c5996e5 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -269,8 +269,18 @@ void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct super_block *sb,
*/
#define MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES 1024
+static inline bool over_bground_thresh(void)
+{
+ unsigned long background_thresh, dirty_thresh;
+
+ get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL, NULL);
+
+ return (global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
+ global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) >= background_thresh);
+}
+
/*
- * Periodic writeback of "old" data.
+ * Retrieve work items queued, or perform periodic writeback of "old" data.
*
* Define "old": the first time one of an inode's pages is dirtied, we mark the
* dirtying-time in the inode's address_space. So this periodic writeback code
@@ -284,61 +294,26 @@ void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct super_block *sb,
* older_than_this takes precedence over nr_to_write. So we'll only write back
* all dirty pages if they are all attached to "old" mappings.
*/
-static long wb_kupdated(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
-{
- unsigned long oldest_jif;
- long nr_to_write, wrote = 0;
- struct writeback_control wbc = {
- .bdi = wb->bdi,
- .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
- .older_than_this = &oldest_jif,
- .nr_to_write = 0,
- .for_kupdate = 1,
- .range_cyclic = 1,
- };
-
- oldest_jif = jiffies - msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_expire_interval * 10);
-
- nr_to_write = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
- global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
- (inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused);
-
- while (nr_to_write > 0) {
- wbc.more_io = 0;
- wbc.encountered_congestion = 0;
- wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
- generic_sync_wb_inodes(wb, NULL, &wbc);
- wrote += MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write;
- if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0)
- break; /* All the old data is written */
- nr_to_write -= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
- }
-
- return wrote;
-}
-
-static inline bool over_bground_thresh(void)
-{
- unsigned long background_thresh, dirty_thresh;
-
- get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL, NULL);
-
- return (global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
- global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) >= background_thresh);
-}
-
-static long __wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, long nr_pages,
- struct super_block *sb,
- enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode)
+static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, long nr_pages,
+ struct super_block *sb,
+ enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode, int for_kupdate)
{
struct writeback_control wbc = {
.bdi = wb->bdi,
.sync_mode = sync_mode,
.older_than_this = NULL,
+ .for_kupdate = for_kupdate,
.range_cyclic = 1,
};
+ unsigned long oldest_jif;
long wrote = 0;
+ if (wbc.for_kupdate) {
+ wbc.older_than_this = &oldest_jif;
+ oldest_jif = jiffies -
+ msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_expire_interval * 10);
+ }
+
for (;;) {
if (sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE && nr_pages <= 0 &&
!over_bground_thresh())
@@ -355,7 +330,7 @@ static long __wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, long nr_pages,
* If we ran out of stuff to write, bail unless more_io got set
*/
if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0 || wbc.pages_skipped > 0) {
- if (wbc.more_io)
+ if (wbc.more_io && !wbc.for_kupdate)
continue;
break;
}
@@ -390,17 +365,18 @@ static struct bdi_work *get_next_work_item(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
/*
* Retrieve work items and do the writeback they describe
*/
-static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait)
+long wb_do_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait)
{
struct backing_dev_info *bdi = wb->bdi;
struct bdi_work *work;
- long wrote = 0;
+ long nr_pages, wrote = 0;
while ((work = get_next_work_item(bdi, wb)) != NULL) {
struct super_block *sb = bdi_work_sb(work);
- long nr_pages = work->nr_pages;
enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode;
+ nr_pages = work->nr_pages;
+
/*
* Override sync mode, in case we must wait for completion
*/
@@ -416,7 +392,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait)
if (sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE)
wb_clear_pending(wb, work);
- wrote += __wb_writeback(wb, nr_pages, sb, sync_mode);
+ wrote += wb_writeback(wb, nr_pages, sb, sync_mode, 0);
/*
* This is a data integrity writeback, so only do the
@@ -426,31 +402,16 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait)
wb_clear_pending(wb, work);
}
- return wrote;
-}
-
-/*
- * This will be inlined in bdi_writeback_task() once we get rid of any
- * dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info
- */
-long wb_do_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait)
-{
- long wrote;
-
/*
- * We get here in two cases:
- *
- * schedule_timeout() returned because the dirty writeback
- * interval has elapsed. If that happens, the work item list
- * will be empty and we will proceed to do kupdated style writeout.
- *
- * Someone called bdi_start_writeback(), which put one/more work
- * items on the work_list. Process those.
+ * Check for periodic writeback, kupdated() style
*/
- if (list_empty(&wb->bdi->work_list))
- wrote = wb_kupdated(wb);
- else
- wrote = wb_writeback(wb, force_wait);
+ if (!wrote) {
+ nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
+ global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
+ (inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused);
+
+ wrote = wb_writeback(wb, nr_pages, NULL, WB_SYNC_NONE, 1);
+ }
return wrote;
}
--
Jens Axboe
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