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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2012-05-03 14:47:56 +0200
committerFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2012-05-06 13:43:38 +0800
commitcc1676d917f32504dbadc858fa790bc524c9f0da (patch)
treed665d5ad0a844a6b1aff74deb4c8aa01c7596135 /fs/fs-writeback.c
parent365b94ae67d2915d412b593d47449a6bffed9d37 (diff)
downloadlinux-cc1676d917f32504dbadc858fa790bc524c9f0da.tar.gz
writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes()
When writeback_single_inode() is called on inode which has I_SYNC already
set while doing WB_SYNC_NONE, inode is moved to b_more_io list. However
this makes sense only if the caller is flusher thread. For other callers of
writeback_single_inode() it doesn't really make sense and may be even wrong
- flusher thread may be doing WB_SYNC_ALL writeback in parallel.

So we move requeueing from writeback_single_inode() to writeback_sb_inodes().

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/fs-writeback.c30
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index dd41437b7a1f..65cd14769226 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -373,21 +373,8 @@ writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct bdi_writeback *wb,
 		WARN_ON(inode->i_state & I_WILL_FREE);
 
 	if (inode->i_state & I_SYNC) {
-		/*
-		 * If this inode is locked for writeback and we are not doing
-		 * writeback-for-data-integrity, move it to b_more_io so that
-		 * writeback can proceed with the other inodes on s_io.
-		 *
-		 * We'll have another go at writing back this inode when we
-		 * completed a full scan of b_io.
-		 */
-		if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL) {
-			requeue_io(inode, wb);
-			trace_writeback_single_inode_requeue(inode, wbc,
-							     nr_to_write);
+		if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL)
 			return 0;
-		}
-
 		/*
 		 * It's a data-integrity sync.  We must wait.
 		 */
@@ -576,6 +563,21 @@ static long writeback_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
 			redirty_tail(inode, wb);
 			continue;
 		}
+		if ((inode->i_state & I_SYNC) && wbc.sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL) {
+			/*
+			 * If this inode is locked for writeback and we are not
+			 * doing writeback-for-data-integrity, move it to
+			 * b_more_io so that writeback can proceed with the
+			 * other inodes on s_io.
+			 *
+			 * We'll have another go at writing back this inode
+			 * when we completed a full scan of b_io.
+			 */
+			spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
+			requeue_io(inode, wb);
+			trace_writeback_sb_inodes_requeue(inode);
+			continue;
+		}
 		__iget(inode);
 		write_chunk = writeback_chunk_size(wb->bdi, work);
 		wbc.nr_to_write = write_chunk;