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-rw-r--r--fs/fs-writeback.c36
-rw-r--r--fs/super.c1
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h1
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 39fadfad86f7..c9d105ff7970 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -165,25 +165,11 @@ static void redirty_tail(struct inode *inode)
}
/*
- * Redirty an inode, but mark it as the very next-to-be-written inode on its
- * superblock's dirty-inode list.
- * We need to preserve s_dirty's reverse-time-orderedness, so we cheat by
- * setting this inode's dirtied_when to the same value as that of the inode
- * which is presently head-of-list, if present head-of-list is newer than this
- * inode. (head-of-list is the least-recently-dirtied inode: the oldest one).
+ * requeue inode for re-scanning after sb->s_io list is exhausted.
*/
-static void redirty_head(struct inode *inode)
+static void requeue_io(struct inode *inode)
{
- struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
-
- if (!list_empty(&sb->s_dirty)) {
- struct inode *head_inode;
-
- head_inode = list_entry(sb->s_dirty.prev, struct inode, i_list);
- if (time_after(inode->dirtied_when, head_inode->dirtied_when))
- inode->dirtied_when = head_inode->dirtied_when;
- }
- list_move_tail(&inode->i_list, &sb->s_dirty);
+ list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode->i_sb->s_more_io);
}
/*
@@ -255,7 +241,7 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
* uncongested.
*/
inode->i_state |= I_DIRTY_PAGES;
- redirty_head(inode);
+ requeue_io(inode);
} else {
/*
* Otherwise fully redirty the inode so that
@@ -315,7 +301,7 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
* on s_io. We'll have another go at writing back this inode
* when the s_dirty iodes get moved back onto s_io.
*/
- redirty_head(inode);
+ requeue_io(inode);
/*
* Even if we don't actually write the inode itself here,
@@ -410,14 +396,14 @@ sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, struct writeback_control *wbc)
wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
if (!sb_is_blkdev_sb(sb))
break; /* Skip a congested fs */
- redirty_head(inode);
+ requeue_io(inode);
continue; /* Skip a congested blockdev */
}
if (wbc->bdi && bdi != wbc->bdi) {
if (!sb_is_blkdev_sb(sb))
break; /* fs has the wrong queue */
- redirty_head(inode);
+ requeue_io(inode);
continue; /* blockdev has wrong queue */
}
@@ -427,8 +413,10 @@ sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, struct writeback_control *wbc)
/* Was this inode dirtied too recently? */
if (wbc->older_than_this && time_after(inode->dirtied_when,
- *wbc->older_than_this))
+ *wbc->older_than_this)) {
+ list_splice_init(&sb->s_io, sb->s_dirty.prev);
break;
+ }
/* Is another pdflush already flushing this queue? */
if (current_is_pdflush() && !writeback_acquire(bdi))
@@ -458,6 +446,10 @@ sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, struct writeback_control *wbc)
if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0)
break;
}
+
+ if (list_empty(&sb->s_io))
+ list_splice_init(&sb->s_more_io, &sb->s_io);
+
return; /* Leave any unwritten inodes on s_io */
}
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index fc8ebedc6bed..1bfcca2104be 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ static struct super_block *alloc_super(struct file_system_type *type)
}
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_dirty);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_io);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_more_io);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_files);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_instances);
INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&s->s_anon);
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 30aca3399450..0b38a897c114 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1002,6 +1002,7 @@ struct super_block {
struct list_head s_inodes; /* all inodes */
struct list_head s_dirty; /* dirty inodes */
struct list_head s_io; /* parked for writeback */
+ struct list_head s_more_io; /* parked for more writeback */
struct hlist_head s_anon; /* anonymous dentries for (nfs) exporting */
struct list_head s_files;
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