writeback: fix time ordering of the per superblock dirty inode lists 5
When the writeback function is operating in writeback-for-flushing mode (as opposed to writeback-for-integrity) and it encounters an I_LOCKed inode, it will skip writing that inode. This is done for throughput and latency: move on to another inode rather than blocking for this one. Writeback skips this inode by moving it off s_io and onto s_dirty, so that writeback can proceed with the other inodes on s_io. However that inode movement can corrupt s_dirty's reverse-time-orderedness. Fix that by using the new redirty_tail(), which will update the refiled inode's dirtied_when field. Note: the behaviour in here is a bit rude: if kupdate happens to come across a locked inode then it will defer writeback of that inode for another 30 seconds. We'll address that in the next patch. Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
parent
1b43ef91d4
commit
c6945e77e4
|
@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
|
|||
struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
|
||||
int ret;
|
||||
|
||||
list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode->i_sb->s_dirty);
|
||||
redirty_tail(inode);
|
||||
|
||||
/*
|
||||
* Even if we don't actually write the inode itself here,
|
||||
|
|
Loading…
Reference in New Issue