Streamline the management of dirty inode lists and fix time ordering bugs. The writeback logic used to moving not-yet-expired dirty inodes from s_dirty to s_io, *only to* move them back. The move-inodes-back-and-forth thing is a mess, which is eliminated by this patch. The new scheme is: - s_dirty acts as a time ordered io delaying queue; - s_io/s_more_io together acts as an io dispatching queue. On kupdate writeback, we pull some inodes from s_dirty to s_io at the start of every full scan of s_io. Otherwise(i.e. for sync/throttle/background writeback), we always pull from s_dirty on each run(a partial scan). Note that the line list_splice_init(&sb->s_more_io, &sb->s_io); is moved to queue_io() to leave s_io empty. Otherwise a big dirtied file will sit in s_io for a long time, preventing new expired inodes to get in. Cc: Ken Chen Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm2.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm2/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ void __mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *in goto out; /* - * If the inode was already on s_dirty or s_io, don't + * If the inode was already on s_dirty/s_io/s_more_io, don't * reposition it (that would break s_dirty time-ordering). */ if (!was_dirty) { @@ -182,6 +182,33 @@ static void inode_sync_complete(struct i } /* + * Move expired dirty inodes from @delaying_queue to @dispatch_queue. + */ +static void move_expired_inodes(struct list_head *delaying_queue, + struct list_head *dispatch_queue, + unsigned long *older_than_this) +{ + while (!list_empty(delaying_queue)) { + struct inode *inode = list_entry(delaying_queue->prev, + struct inode, i_list); + if (older_than_this && + time_after(inode->dirtied_when, *older_than_this)) + break; + list_move(&inode->i_list, dispatch_queue); + } +} + +/* + * Queue all expired dirty inodes for io, eldest first. + */ +static void queue_io(struct super_block *sb, + unsigned long *older_than_this) +{ + list_splice_init(&sb->s_more_io, sb->s_io.prev); + move_expired_inodes(&sb->s_dirty, &sb->s_io, older_than_this); +} + +/* * Write a single inode's dirty pages and inode data out to disk. * If `wait' is set, wait on the writeout. * @@ -231,7 +258,7 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode, /* * We didn't write back all the pages. nfs_writepages() * sometimes bales out without doing anything. Redirty - * the inode. It is moved from s_io onto s_dirty. + * the inode; Move it from s_io onto s_more_io/s_dirty. */ /* * akpm: if the caller was the kupdate function we put @@ -244,10 +271,9 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode, */ if (wbc->for_kupdate) { /* - * For the kupdate function we leave the inode - * at the head of sb_dirty so it will get more - * writeout as soon as the queue becomes - * uncongested. + * For the kupdate function we move the inode + * to s_more_io so it will get more writeout as + * soon as the queue becomes uncongested. */ inode->i_state |= I_DIRTY_PAGES; requeue_io(inode); @@ -305,10 +331,10 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *i /* * We're skipping this inode because it's locked, and we're not - * doing writeback-for-data-integrity. Move it to the head of - * s_dirty so that writeback can proceed with the other inodes - * on s_io. We'll have another go at writing back this inode - * when the s_dirty iodes get moved back onto s_io. + * doing writeback-for-data-integrity. Move it to s_more_io so + * that writeback can proceed with the other inodes on s_io. + * We'll have another go at writing back this inode when we + * completed a full scan of s_io. */ requeue_io(inode); @@ -376,7 +402,7 @@ int generic_sync_sb_inodes(struct super_ spin_lock(&inode_lock); if (!wbc->for_kupdate || list_empty(&sb->s_io)) - list_splice_init(&sb->s_dirty, &sb->s_io); + queue_io(sb, wbc->older_than_this); while (!list_empty(&sb->s_io)) { int err; @@ -423,13 +449,6 @@ int generic_sync_sb_inodes(struct super_ if (time_after(inode->dirtied_when, start)) break; - /* Was this inode dirtied too recently? */ - if (wbc->older_than_this && time_after(inode->dirtied_when, - *wbc->older_than_this)) { - list_splice_init(&sb->s_io, sb->s_dirty.prev); - break; - } - /* Is another pdflush already flushing this queue? */ if (current_is_pdflush() && !writeback_acquire(bdi)) break; @@ -461,8 +480,6 @@ int generic_sync_sb_inodes(struct super_ break; } - if (list_empty(&sb->s_io)) - list_splice_init(&sb->s_more_io, &sb->s_io); spin_unlock(&inode_lock); return ret; /* Leave any unwritten inodes on s_io */ } @@ -482,7 +499,7 @@ static int sync_sb_inodes(struct super_b * Note: * We don't need to grab a reference to superblock here. If it has non-empty * ->s_dirty it's hadn't been killed yet and kill_super() won't proceed - * past sync_inodes_sb() until both the ->s_dirty and ->s_io lists are + * past sync_inodes_sb() until the ->s_dirty/s_io/s_more_io lists are all * empty. Since __sync_single_inode() regains inode_lock before it finally moves * inode from superblock lists we are OK. * -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/