writeback: don't redirty tail an inode with dirty pages
authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:17:41 +0000 (14:17 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:43:30 +0000 (08:43 -0700)
commit23539afc71937dbaca7de2229669f4475ff4ea7b
tree1a37d78bc4d387c6cbdc201755dce09297ebe308
parent1babe18385d3976043c04237ce837f3736197eb4
writeback: don't redirty tail an inode with dirty pages

Avoid delaying writeback for an expire inode with lots of dirty pages, but
no active dirtier at the moment.  Previously we only do that for the
kupdate case.

Any filesystem that does delayed allocation or unwritten extent conversion
after IO completion will cause this - for example, XFS.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/fs-writeback.c