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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2009-01-06 14:39:04 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-06 15:58:59 -0800
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parentdo_mpage_readpage(): don't submit lots of small bios on boundary (diff)
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mm: write_cache_pages cyclic fix
In write_cache_pages, scanned == 1 is supposed to mean that cyclic writeback has circled through zero, thus we should not circle again. However it gets set to 1 after the first successful pagevec lookup. This leads to cases where not enough data gets written. Counterexample: file with first 10 pages dirty, writeback_index == 5, nr_to_write == 10. Then the 5 last pages will be found, and scanned will be set to 1, after writing those out, we will not cycle back to get the first 5. Rework this logic, now we'll always cycle unless we started off from index 0. When cycling, only write out as far as 1 page before the start page from the first cycle (so we don't write parts of the file twice). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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