Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:36:37 +0800 | From | Fengguang Wu <> | Subject | [PATCH 00/13] writeback bug fixes and simplifications take 2 |
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Andrew,
This patchset mainly polishes the writeback queuing policies. The main goals are:
(1) small files should not be starved by big dirty files (2) sync as fast as possible for not-blocked inodes/pages - don't leave them out; no congestion_wait() in between them (3) avoid busy iowait for blocked inodes - retry them in the next go of s_io(maybe at the next wakeup of pdflush)
The role of the queues:
s_dirty: park for dirtied_when expiration s_io: park for io submission s_more_io: for big dirty inodes, they will be retried in this run of pdflush (it ensures fairness between small/large files) s_more_io_wait: for blocked inodes, they will be picked up in next run of s_io
This patchset is in better shape, but still not ready for merge. It begins with:
[PATCH 01/13] writeback: revert 2e6883bdf49abd0e7f0d9b6297fc3be7ebb2250b [PATCH 02/13] writeback: clear PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY for truncated page in block_write_full_page()
Introduces more_io/more_io_wait based policies:
[PATCH 03/13] writeback: introduce writeback_control.more_io [PATCH 04/13] writeback: introduce super_block.s_more_io_wait [PATCH 05/13] writeback: merge duplicate code into writeback_some_pages() [PATCH 06/13] writeback: defer writeback on not-all-pages-written [PATCH 07/13] writeback: defer writeback on locked inode [PATCH 08/13] writeback: defer writeback on locked buffers [PATCH 09/13] writeback: requeue_io() on redirtied inode
And finishes with some code cleanups:
[PATCH 10/13] writeback: introduce queue_dirty() [PATCH 11/13] writeback: queue_dirty() on memory-backed bdi [PATCH 12/13] writeback: remove redirty_tail() [PATCH 13/13] writeback: cleanup __sync_single_inode()
Diffstat:
fs/buffer.c | 2 fs/fs-writeback.c | 121 +++++++++++++++--------------------------- fs/super.c | 1 include/linux/fs.h | 1 mm/page-writeback.c | 46 +++++++-------- 5 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)
Regards, Fengguang Wu --
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