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Commit 2c136579 authored by Fengguang Wu's avatar Fengguang Wu Committed by Linus Torvalds
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writeback: fix time ordering of the per superblock inode lists 8



Streamline the management of dirty inode lists and fix time ordering bugs.

The writeback logic used to move not-yet-expired dirty inodes from s_dirty to
s_io, *only to* move them back.  The move-inodes-back-and-forth thing is a
mess, which is eliminated by this patch.

The new scheme is:
- s_dirty acts as a time ordered io delaying queue;
- s_io/s_more_io together acts as an io dispatching queue.

On kupdate writeback, we pull some inodes from s_dirty to s_io at the start of
every full scan of s_io.  Otherwise  (i.e. for sync/throttle/background
writeback), we always pull from s_dirty on each run (a partial scan).

Note that the line
	list_splice_init(&sb->s_more_io, &sb->s_io);
is moved to queue_io() to leave s_io empty. Otherwise a big dirtied file will
sit in s_io for a long time, preventing new expired inodes to get in.

Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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