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    Subject[PATCH 04/15] writeback: try more writeback as long as something was written
    writeback_inodes_wb()/__writeback_inodes_sb() are not aggressive in that
    they only populate possibly a subset of eligible inodes into b_io at
    entrance time. When the queued set of inodes are all synced, they just
    return, possibly with all queued inode pages written but still
    wbc.nr_to_write > 0.

    For kupdate and background writeback, there may be more eligible inodes
    sitting in b_dirty when the current set of b_io inodes are completed. So
    it is necessary to try another round of writeback as long as we made some
    progress in this round. When there are no more eligible inodes, no more
    inodes will be enqueued in queue_io(), hence nothing could/will be
    synced and we may safely bail.

    For example, imagine 100 inodes

    i0, i1, i2, ..., i90, i91, i99

    At queue_io() time, i90-i99 happen to be expired and moved to s_io for
    IO. When finished successfully, if their total size is less than
    MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES, nr_to_write will be > 0. Then wb_writeback() will
    quit the background work (w/o this patch) while it's still over
    background threshold. This will be a fairly normal/frequent case I guess.

    Now that we do tagged sync and update inode->dirtied_when after the sync,
    this change won't livelock sync(1). I actually tried to write 1 page
    per 1ms with this command

    write-and-fsync -n10000 -S 1000 -c 4096 /fs/test

    and do sync(1) at the same time. The sync completes quickly on ext4,
    xfs, btrfs.

    Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
    ---
    fs/fs-writeback.c | 16 ++++++++--------
    1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

    --- linux-next.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c 2011-05-24 11:17:16.000000000 +0800
    +++ linux-next/fs/fs-writeback.c 2011-05-24 11:17:17.000000000 +0800
    @@ -739,23 +739,23 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writ
    wrote += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write;

    /*
    - * If we consumed everything, see if we have more
    + * Did we write something? Try for more
    + *
    + * Dirty inodes are moved to b_io for writeback in batches.
    + * The completion of the current batch does not necessarily
    + * mean the overall work is done. So we keep looping as long
    + * as made some progress on cleaning pages or inodes.
    */
    - if (wbc.nr_to_write <= 0)
    + if (wbc.nr_to_write < write_chunk)
    continue;
    if (wbc.inodes_cleaned)
    continue;
    /*
    - * Didn't write everything and we don't have more IO, bail
    + * No more inodes for IO, bail
    */
    if (!wbc.more_io)
    break;
    /*
    - * Did we write something? Try for more
    - */
    - if (wbc.nr_to_write < write_chunk)
    - continue;
    - /*
    * Nothing written. Wait for some inode to
    * become available for writeback. Otherwise
    * we'll just busyloop.



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