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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/6] page-writeback: pass in '0' for nr_pages writeback in laptop mode
On Tue 19-09-17 13:53:04, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Laptop mode really wants to writeback the number of dirty
> pages and inodes. Instead of calculating this in the caller,
> just pass in 0 and let wakeup_flusher_threads() handle it.
>
> Use the new wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi() instead of rolling
> our own.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
...
> - rcu_read_lock();
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(wb, &q->backing_dev_info->wb_list, bdi_node)
> - if (wb_has_dirty_io(wb))
> - wb_start_writeback(wb, nr_pages, true,
> - WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER);
> - rcu_read_unlock();
> + wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi(q->backing_dev_info, 0,
> + WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER);
> }

So this slightly changes the semantics since previously we were doing
range_cyclic writeback and now we don't. I don't think this matters in
practice but please mention that in the changelog. With that you can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

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