linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] page-writeback: pass in '0' for nr

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Message-ID: <b6aaf770-6543-728a-1f10-1268d3827b8a@kernel.dk>
Date:   Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:19:05 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, hannes@...xchg.org, clm@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] page-writeback: pass in '0' for nr_pages writeback in
 laptop mode

On 09/20/2017 08:35 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 19-09-17 13:53:04, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> Laptop mode really wants to writeback the number of dirty
>> pages and inodes. Instead of calculating this in the caller,
>> just pass in 0 and let wakeup_flusher_threads() handle it.
>>
>> Use the new wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi() instead of rolling
>> our own.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
> ...
>> -	rcu_read_lock();
>> -	list_for_each_entry_rcu(wb, &q->backing_dev_info->wb_list, bdi_node)
>> -		if (wb_has_dirty_io(wb))
>> -			wb_start_writeback(wb, nr_pages, true,
>> -					   WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER);
>> -	rcu_read_unlock();
>> +	wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi(q->backing_dev_info, 0,
>> +					WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER);
>>  }
> 
> So this slightly changes the semantics since previously we were doing
> range_cyclic writeback and now we don't. I don't think this matters in
> practice but please mention that in the changelog. With that you can add:

Thanks, I added a note about that in the commit message.

-- 
Jens Axboe