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| author |   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2011-02-26 14:08:11 -0500 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2011-02-26 14:08:11 -0500 |
| commit | ee6ecbcc5d73672217fdea420d182ecb0cdf310c (patch) | |
| tree | 4d5b960a2feb20ce1b5866739b39c89dec1c49d8 /fs/ext4 | |
| parent | ext4: clear the dirty bit for a page in writeback at the last minute (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-ee6ecbcc5d73672217fdea420d182ecb0cdf310c.tar.xz linux-dev-ee6ecbcc5d73672217fdea420d182ecb0cdf310c.zip | |
ext4: remove page_skipped hackery in ext4_da_writepages()
Because the ext4 page writeback codepath had been prematurely calling
clear_page_dirty_for_io(), if it turned out that a particular page
couldn't be written out during a particular pass of
write_cache_pages_da(), the page would have to get redirtied by
calling redirty_pages_for_writeback(). Not only was this wasted work,
but redirty_page_for_writeback() would increment wbc->pages_skipped to
signal to writeback_sb_inodes() that buffers were locked, and that it
should skip this inode until later.
Since this signal was incorrect in ext4's case --- which was caused by
ext4's historically incorrect use of write_cache_pages() ---
ext4_da_writepages() saved and restored wbc->skipped_pages to avoid
confusing writeback_sb_inodes().
Now that we've fixed ext4 to call clear_page_dirty_for_io() right
before initiating the page I/O, we can nuke the page_skipped
save/restore hackery, and breathe a sigh of relief.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/inode.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index ae6e2f43d873..617c9cbba182 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -2900,7 +2900,6 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct mpage_da_data mpd; struct inode *inode = mapping->host; int pages_written = 0; - long pages_skipped; unsigned int max_pages; int range_cyclic, cycled = 1, io_done = 0; int needed_blocks, ret = 0; @@ -2986,8 +2985,6 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, mpd.wbc = wbc; mpd.inode = mapping->host; - pages_skipped = wbc->pages_skipped; - retry: if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end); @@ -3047,7 +3044,6 @@ retry: * and try again */ jbd2_journal_force_commit_nested(sbi->s_journal); - wbc->pages_skipped = pages_skipped; ret = 0; } else if (ret == MPAGE_DA_EXTENT_TAIL) { /* @@ -3055,7 +3051,6 @@ retry: * rest of the pages */ pages_written += mpd.pages_written; - wbc->pages_skipped = pages_skipped; ret = 0; io_done = 1; } else if (wbc->nr_to_write) @@ -3073,11 +3068,6 @@ retry: wbc->range_end = mapping->writeback_index - 1; goto retry; } - if (pages_skipped != wbc->pages_skipped) - ext4_msg(inode->i_sb, KERN_CRIT, - "This should not happen leaving %s " - "with nr_to_write = %ld ret = %d", - __func__, wbc->nr_to_write, ret); /* Update index */ wbc->range_cyclic = range_cyclic; |