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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>writeback: pass in super_block to bdi_start_writeback()</title>
<updated>2009-09-25T22:10:40+00:00</updated>
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<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2009-09-25T22:07:46+00:00</published>
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Sometimes we only want to write pages from a specific super_block,
so allow that to be passed in.

This fixes a problem with commit 56a131dcf7ed36c3c6e36bea448b674ea85ed5bb
causing writeback on all super_blocks on a bdi, where we only really
want to sync a specific sb from writeback_inodes_sb().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Sometimes we only want to write pages from a specific super_block,
so allow that to be passed in.

This fixes a problem with commit 56a131dcf7ed36c3c6e36bea448b674ea85ed5bb
causing writeback on all super_blocks on a bdi, where we only really
want to sync a specific sb from writeback_inodes_sb().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>writeback: writeback_inodes_sb() should use bdi_start_writeback()</title>
<updated>2009-09-25T16:08:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2009-09-25T15:15:03+00:00</published>
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Pointless to iterate other devices looking for a super, when
we have a bdi mapping.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Pointless to iterate other devices looking for a super, when
we have a bdi mapping.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>writeback: don't delay inodes redirtied by a fast dirtier</title>
<updated>2009-09-25T16:08:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wu Fengguang</name>
<email>fengguang.wu@intel.com</email>
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<published>2009-09-25T04:04:10+00:00</published>
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Debug traces show that in per-bdi writeback, the inode under writeback
almost always get redirtied by a busy dirtier.  We used to call
redirty_tail() in this case, which could delay inode for up to 30s.

This is unacceptable because it now happens so frequently for plain cp/dd,
that the accumulated delays could make writeback of big files very slow.

So let's distinguish between data redirty and metadata only redirty.
The first one is caused by a busy dirtier, while the latter one could
happen in XFS, NFS, etc. when they are doing delalloc or updating isize.

The inode being busy dirtied will now be requeued for next io, while
the inode being redirtied by fs will continue to be delayed to avoid
repeated IO.

CC: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
CC: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
CC: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
CC: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
CC: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Debug traces show that in per-bdi writeback, the inode under writeback
almost always get redirtied by a busy dirtier.  We used to call
redirty_tail() in this case, which could delay inode for up to 30s.

This is unacceptable because it now happens so frequently for plain cp/dd,
that the accumulated delays could make writeback of big files very slow.

So let's distinguish between data redirty and metadata only redirty.
The first one is caused by a busy dirtier, while the latter one could
happen in XFS, NFS, etc. when they are doing delalloc or updating isize.

The inode being busy dirtied will now be requeued for next io, while
the inode being redirtied by fs will continue to be delayed to avoid
repeated IO.

CC: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
CC: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
CC: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
CC: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
CC: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>writeback: make the super_block pinning more efficient</title>
<updated>2009-09-25T16:08:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2009-09-24T13:25:11+00:00</published>
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Currently we pin the inode-&gt;i_sb for every single inode. This
increases cache traffic on sb-&gt;s_umount sem. Lets instead
cache the inode sb pin state and keep the super_block pinned
for as long as keep writing out inodes from the same
super_block.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Currently we pin the inode-&gt;i_sb for every single inode. This
increases cache traffic on sb-&gt;s_umount sem. Lets instead
cache the inode sb pin state and keep the super_block pinned
for as long as keep writing out inodes from the same
super_block.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>writeback: don't resort for a single super_block in move_expired_inodes()</title>
<updated>2009-09-25T16:08:26+00:00</updated>
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<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-24T13:12:57+00:00</published>
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If we only moved inodes from a single super_block to the temporary
list, there's no point in doing a resort for multiple super_blocks.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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If we only moved inodes from a single super_block to the temporary
list, there's no point in doing a resort for multiple super_blocks.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>writeback: move inodes from one super_block together</title>
<updated>2009-09-25T16:08:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shaohua Li</name>
<email>shaohua.li@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-24T12:42:33+00:00</published>
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__mark_inode_dirty adds inode to wb dirty list in random order. If a disk has
several partitions, writeback might keep spindle moving between partitions.
To reduce the move, better write big chunk of one partition and then move to
another. Inodes from one fs usually are in one partion, so idealy move indoes
from one fs together should reduce spindle move. This patch tries to address
this. Before per-bdi writeback is added, the behavior is write indoes
from one fs first and then another, so the patch restores previous behavior.
The loop in the patch is a bit ugly, should we add a dirty list for each
superblock in bdi_writeback?

Test in a two partition disk with attached fio script shows about 3% ~ 6%
improvement.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shaohua.li@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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__mark_inode_dirty adds inode to wb dirty list in random order. If a disk has
several partitions, writeback might keep spindle moving between partitions.
To reduce the move, better write big chunk of one partition and then move to
another. Inodes from one fs usually are in one partion, so idealy move indoes
from one fs together should reduce spindle move. This patch tries to address
this. Before per-bdi writeback is added, the behavior is write indoes
from one fs first and then another, so the patch restores previous behavior.
The loop in the patch is a bit ugly, should we add a dirty list for each
superblock in bdi_writeback?

Test in a two partition disk with attached fio script shows about 3% ~ 6%
improvement.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shaohua.li@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>writeback: get rid to incorrect references to pdflush in comments</title>
<updated>2009-09-25T16:08:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-23T17:37:09+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>writeback: improve readability of the wb_writeback() continue/break logic</title>
<updated>2009-09-25T16:08:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-23T17:32:26+00:00</published>
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And throw some comments in there, too.

Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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And throw some comments in there, too.

Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>writeback: cleanup writeback_single_inode()</title>
<updated>2009-09-25T16:08:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wu Fengguang</name>
<email>fengguang.wu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-23T12:33:42+00:00</published>
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Make the if-else straight in writeback_single_inode().
No behavior change.

Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Michael Rubin &lt;mrubin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Make the if-else straight in writeback_single_inode().
No behavior change.

Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Michael Rubin &lt;mrubin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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<title>writeback: kupdate writeback shall not stop when more io is possible</title>
<updated>2009-09-25T16:08:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wu Fengguang</name>
<email>fengguang.wu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-23T12:33:41+00:00</published>
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Fix the kupdate case, which disregards wbc.more_io and stop writeback
prematurely even when there are more inodes to be synced.

wbc.more_io should always be respected.

Also remove the pages_skipped check. It will set when some page(s) of some
inode(s) cannot be written for now. Such inodes will be delayed for a while.
This variable has nothing to do with whether there are other writeable inodes.

CC: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
CC: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
CC: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Fix the kupdate case, which disregards wbc.more_io and stop writeback
prematurely even when there are more inodes to be synced.

wbc.more_io should always be respected.

Also remove the pages_skipped check. It will set when some page(s) of some
inode(s) cannot be written for now. Such inodes will be delayed for a while.
This variable has nothing to do with whether there are other writeable inodes.

CC: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
CC: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
CC: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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