linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 4/6] mm: allow for outstanding swap writeback accounting

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Message-ID: <20130129000113.GG4752@blaptop>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:01:13 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Robert Jennings <rcj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jenifer Hopper <jhopper@...ibm.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Larry Woodman <lwoodman@...hat.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 4/6] mm: allow for outstanding swap writeback accounting

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 03:49:25PM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote:
> To prevent flooding the swap device with writebacks, frontswap
> backends need to count and limit the number of outstanding
> writebacks.  The incrementing of the counter can be done before
> the call to __swap_writepage().  However, the caller must receive
> a notification when the writeback completes in order to decrement
> the counter.
> 
> To achieve this functionality, this patch modifies
> __swap_writepage() to take the bio completion callback function
> as an argument.
> 
> end_swap_bio_write(), the normal bio completion function, is also
> made non-static so that code doing the accounting can call it
> after the accounting is done.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>

-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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