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authorJosef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>2011-08-01 14:37:36 -0400
committerChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>2011-08-01 14:37:36 -0400
commit0d10ee2e6deb5c8409ae65b970846344897d5e4e (patch)
tree7072161df34ced133b41cc99e5f868bc8e55a018 /fs
parent341d14f161a475ebdbc9adff1f7e681e1185dee9 (diff)
downloadlinux-0d10ee2e6deb5c8409ae65b970846344897d5e4e.tar.gz
Btrfs: don't call writepages from within write_full_page
When doing a writepage we call writepages to try and write out any other dirty
pages in the area.  This could cause problems where we commit a transaction and
then have somebody else dirtying metadata in the area as we could end up writing
out a lot more than we care about, which could cause latency on anybody who is
waiting for the transaction to completely finish committing.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/extent_io.c10
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
index a59ebc608ccc..8491712b1dad 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
@@ -2502,7 +2502,6 @@ int extent_write_full_page(struct extent_io_tree *tree, struct page *page,
 			  struct writeback_control *wbc)
 {
 	int ret;
-	struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
 	struct extent_page_data epd = {
 		.bio = NULL,
 		.tree = tree,
@@ -2510,18 +2509,9 @@ int extent_write_full_page(struct extent_io_tree *tree, struct page *page,
 		.extent_locked = 0,
 		.sync_io = wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL,
 	};
-	struct writeback_control wbc_writepages = {
-		.sync_mode	= wbc->sync_mode,
-		.older_than_this = NULL,
-		.nr_to_write	= 64,
-		.range_start	= page_offset(page) + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE,
-		.range_end	= (loff_t)-1,
-	};
 
 	ret = __extent_writepage(page, wbc, &epd);
 
-	extent_write_cache_pages(tree, mapping, &wbc_writepages,
-				 __extent_writepage, &epd, flush_write_bio);
 	flush_epd_write_bio(&epd);
 	return ret;
 }