Re: [RFC][PATCH v7 08/14] writeback: add memcg fields towriteback_control

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Fri, 13 May 2011 01:47:47 -0700
Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add writeback_control fields to differentiate between bdi-wide and
> per-cgroup writeback.  Cgroup writeback is also able to differentiate
> between writing inodes isolated to a particular cgroup and inodes shared
> by multiple cgroups.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>

Personally, I want to see new flags with their usage in a patch...


> ---
>  include/linux/writeback.h |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
> index d10d133..4f5c0d2 100644
> --- a/include/linux/writeback.h
> +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
> @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ struct writeback_control {
>  	unsigned for_reclaim:1;		/* Invoked from the page allocator */
>  	unsigned range_cyclic:1;	/* range_start is cyclic */
>  	unsigned more_io:1;		/* more io to be dispatched */
> +	unsigned for_cgroup:1;		/* enable cgroup writeback */
> +	unsigned shared_inodes:1;	/* write inodes spanning cgroups */
>  };


If shared_inode is really rare case...we don't need to have this shared_inodes
flag and do writeback shared_inode always.....No ?

Thanks,
-Kame

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