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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4] writeback: avoid duplicate balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() calls
On Wed 13-04-11 16:59:39, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> When dd in 512bytes, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() could be called 8
> times for the same page, but obviously the page is only dirtied once.
>
> Fix it with a (slightly racy) PageDirty() test.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> ---
> mm/filemap.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- linux-next.orig/mm/filemap.c 2011-04-13 16:46:01.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux-next/mm/filemap.c 2011-04-13 16:47:26.000000000 +0800
> @@ -2313,6 +2313,7 @@ static ssize_t generic_perform_write(str
> long status = 0;
> ssize_t written = 0;
> unsigned int flags = 0;
> + unsigned int dirty;
>
> /*
> * Copies from kernel address space cannot fail (NFSD is a big user).
> @@ -2361,6 +2362,7 @@ again:
> pagefault_enable();
> flush_dcache_page(page);
>
> + dirty = PageDirty(page);
This isn't completely right as we sometimes dirty the page in
->write_begin() (see e.g. block_write_begin() when we allocate blocks under
an already uptodate page) and in such cases we would not call
balance_dirty_pages(). So I'm not sure we can really do this
optimization (although it's sad)...

> mark_page_accessed(page);
> status = a_ops->write_end(file, mapping, pos, bytes, copied,
> page, fsdata);
> @@ -2387,7 +2389,8 @@ again:
> pos += copied;
> written += copied;
>
> - balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
> + if (!dirty)
> + balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
>
> } while (iov_iter_count(i));

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


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