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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2007-10-17 02:30:36 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-17 11:43:02 -0400
commitc6945e77e477103057b4a639b4b01596f5257861 (patch)
tree02e6b473143060cdec08f3d8447512d56ea699bd /include/asm-blackfin/kgdb.h
parent1b43ef91d40190b16ba10218e66d5c2c4ba11de3 (diff)
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>
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