linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/7] writeback: make writeback_control.nr_to

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Date:	Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:35:36 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] writeback: make writeback_control.nr_to_write
 straight

I'd rather see this earlier in the series, before the write bandwith
estimation ones, as it's groundwork independ of those changes.

> +		if (wrote) {
> +			if (jiffies - start_time > HZ / 10UL)
> +				break;
> +			if (work->nr_pages <= 0)
> +				break;
> +		}

This code probably wants some comments.

>  static void bdi_flush_io(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
>  {
> -	struct writeback_control wbc = {
> -		.sync_mode		= WB_SYNC_NONE,
> -		.older_than_this	= NULL,
> -		.range_cyclic		= 1,
> -		.nr_to_write		= 1024,
> -	};
> -
> -	writeback_inodes_wb(&bdi->wb, &wbc);
> +	writeback_inodes_wb(&bdi->wb, 1024);
>  }

At this point you could probably also kill the bdi_flush_io wrapper, and
just call writeback_inodes_wb directly.  A comment on the 1024 pages to
write would be nice, if you remember it from poking the code.  I can't
find any good explanation for it offhand.

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