Re: [PATCH 38/51] writeback: make laptop_mode_timer_fn() handle multiple bdi_writeback's

From: Jan Kara
Date: Wed Jul 01 2015 - 03:32:57 EST


On Fri 22-05-15 17:13:52, Tejun Heo wrote:
> For cgroup writeback support, all bdi-wide operations should be
> distributed to all its wb's (bdi_writeback's).
>
> This patch updates laptop_mode_timer_fn() so that it invokes
> wb_start_writeback() on all wb's rather than just the root one. As
> the intent is writing out all dirty data, there's no reason to split
> the number of pages to write.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Looks good. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>

Honza

> ---
> mm/page-writeback.c | 12 +++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
> index 6301af2..682e3a6 100644
> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
> @@ -1723,14 +1723,20 @@ void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
> struct request_queue *q = (struct request_queue *)data;
> int nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
> global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
> + struct bdi_writeback *wb;
> + struct wb_iter iter;
>
> /*
> * We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty
> * threshold
> */
> - if (bdi_has_dirty_io(&q->backing_dev_info))
> - wb_start_writeback(&q->backing_dev_info.wb, nr_pages, true,
> - WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER);
> + if (!bdi_has_dirty_io(&q->backing_dev_info))
> + return;
> +
> + bdi_for_each_wb(wb, &q->backing_dev_info, &iter, 0)
> + if (wb_has_dirty_io(wb))
> + wb_start_writeback(wb, nr_pages, true,
> + WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER);
> }
>
> /*
> --
> 2.4.0
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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