linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/15] writeback: remove writeback_control.more

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:06:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
cc:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] writeback: remove writeback_control.more_io

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 13-07-11 03:57:40, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > 
> > I think we should assume that your -requeue_io +redirty_tail is a good
> > fix for the writeback freeze (if you can reassure us, that it does not
> > risk postponing some writes indefinitely)
>   Well, I_FREEING or I_WILL_FREE inodes are written back by iput_final()
> and it is reclaim code that is responsible for eventually removing them. So
> writeback code can safely ignore them. I_NEW inodes should move out of this
> state when they are fully set up and in the writeback round following that,
> we will consider them for writeback. So I think the change really makes
> sense.

That fits.  Good, thanks for the reassurance.

Hugh
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