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Date:	Fri, 3 Feb 2012 19:31:27 +0530
From:	Amit Sahrawat <amit.sahrawat83@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>,
	Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@...sung.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: make do_writepages() use plugging

Hi Peter,
Thanks for pointing out.

While checking the plug support in Write code flow, I came across this
main point from which - we invoke
writepages(mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc)) from almost all
the the filesystems.

By mistake I checked 2 different kernel versions for this code(and
missed that the current version already has put plug in
mpage_writepages) ... so may be this patch is not worth considering.

Regards,
Amit Sahrawat


On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 18:57 +0530, Amit Sahrawat wrote:
>> This will cover all the invocations for writepages to be called with
>> plugging support.
>
> This changelog fails to explain why this is a good thing... I thought
> the idea of the new plugging stuff was that we now don't need to
> sprinkle plugs all over the kernel..
>
>> Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@...sung.com>
>> ---
>>  mm/page-writeback.c |    4 ++++
>>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
>> index 363ba70..2bea32c 100644
>> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
>> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
>> @@ -1866,14 +1866,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages);
>>
>>  int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
>>  {
>> +     struct blk_plug plug;
>>       int ret;
>>
>>       if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0)
>>               return 0;
>> +
>> +     blk_start_plug(&plug);
>>       if (mapping->a_ops->writepages)
>>               ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
>>       else
>>               ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
>> +     blk_finish_plug(&plug);
>>       return ret;
>>  }
>>
>
>
>
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