| Date | Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:04:01 +0100 | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/6] writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes_written |
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:09:34PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > Introduce writeback_control.inodes_written to count successful > ->write_inode() calls. A non-zero value means there are some > progress on writeback, in which case more writeback will be tried. > > This prevents aborting a background writeback work prematually when > the current set of inodes for IO happen to be metadata-only dirty. > > Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Seems reasonable.
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
-- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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