writeback: account NR_WRITTEN at IO completion time
authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:12:37 +0000 (17:12 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:57:11 +0000 (20:57 -0700)
NR_WRITTEN is now accounted at block IO enqueue time, which is not very
accurate as to common understanding.  This moves NR_WRITTEN accounting to
the IO completion time and makes it more consistent with BDI_WRITTEN,
which is used for bandwidth estimation.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page-writeback.c

index 919b45eb57ada44f4386ef78a6fad080a0ffc884..d8767b381b9cbb4fc5fd30cf05fca7c2f86d5ed3 100644 (file)
@@ -1141,7 +1141,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied);
 void account_page_writeback(struct page *page)
 {
        inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
-       inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITTEN);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_writeback);
 
@@ -1358,8 +1357,10 @@ int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
        } else {
                ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
        }
-       if (ret)
+       if (ret) {
                dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
+               inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITTEN);
+       }
        return ret;
 }