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Message-ID: <20220418050013.GA3372@lst.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 07:00:13 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@...wei.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yukuai3@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs-writeback: Flush plug before next iteration in
wb_writeback()
On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 04:41:35PM +0800, Zhihao Cheng wrote:
> So, how about applying the safe and simple method(flush plug) for the time
> being?
As said before - if you flush everytime here the plug is basically
useless and we could remove it. But it was added for a reason. So let's
at least improve the accounting for the skipped writeback as suggested in
your last mail.
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