linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes

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Message-ID: <20100726110401.GO5300@csn.ul.ie>
Date:	Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:04:01 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] writeback: introduce
	writeback_control.inodes_written

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:09:34PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Introduce writeback_control.inodes_written to count successful
> ->write_inode() calls.  A non-zero value means there are some
> progress on writeback, in which case more writeback will be tried.
> 
> This prevents aborting a background writeback work prematually when
> the current set of inodes for IO happen to be metadata-only dirty.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>

Seems reasonable.

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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