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Subject[PATCH 6/7] writeback: requeue_io_wait() on blocked inode
Use requeue_io_wait() if inode is somehow blocked.

CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
---
fs/fs-writeback.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-next.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c 2011-10-20 22:42:25.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/fs/fs-writeback.c 2011-10-20 22:43:42.000000000 +0800
@@ -471,25 +471,25 @@ writeback_single_inode(struct inode *ino
/*
* slice used up: queue for next turn
*/
requeue_io(inode, wb);
} else {
/*
* Writeback blocked by something other than
* congestion. Delay the inode for some time to
* avoid spinning on the CPU (100% iowait)
* retrying writeback of the dirty page/inode
* that cannot be performed immediately.
*/
- redirty_tail(inode, wb);
+ requeue_io_wait(inode, wb);
}
} else if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) {
/*
* Filesystems can dirty the inode during writeback
* operations, such as delayed allocation during
* submission or metadata updates after data IO
* completion.
*
* For the latter case it is very important to give
* the inode another turn on b_more_io instead of
* redirtying it. Constantly moving dirtied_when
* forward will prevent us from ever writing out



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