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writeback: pay attention to wbc->nr_to_write in write_cache_pages

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If a filesystem writes more than one page in ->writepage, write_cache_pages
fails to notice this and continues to attempt writeback when wbc->nr_to_write
has gone negative - this trace was captured from XFS:

    wbc_writeback_start: towrt=1024
    wbc_writepage: towrt=1024
    wbc_writepage: towrt=0
    wbc_writepage: towrt=-1
    wbc_writepage: towrt=-5
    wbc_writepage: towrt=-21
    wbc_writepage: towrt=-85

This has adverse effects on filesystem writeback behaviour. write_cache_pages()
needs to terminate after a certain number of pages are written, not after a
certain number of calls to ->writepage are made.  This is a regression
introduced by 17bc6c30cf ("vfs: Add
no_nrwrite_index_update writeback control flag"), but cannot be reverted
directly due to subsequent bug fixes that have gone in on top of it.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dave Chinner
2010-06-09 10:37:18 +10:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8d7458daea
commit 0b5649278e
3 changed files with 6 additions and 23 deletions
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include/trace/events/ext4.h
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@ -306,7 +306,6 @@ TRACE_EVENT(ext4_da_writepages_result,
__field( int, pages_written )
__field( long, pages_skipped )
__field( char, more_io )
__field( char, no_nrwrite_index_update )
__field( pgoff_t, writeback_index )
),
@ -317,16 +316,14 @@ TRACE_EVENT(ext4_da_writepages_result,
__entry->pages_written = pages_written;
__entry->pages_skipped = wbc->pages_skipped;
__entry->more_io = wbc->more_io;
__entry->no_nrwrite_index_update = wbc->no_nrwrite_index_update;
__entry->writeback_index = inode->i_mapping->writeback_index;
),
TP_printk("dev %s ino %lu ret %d pages_written %d pages_skipped %ld more_io %d no_nrwrite_index_update %d writeback_index %lu",
TP_printk("dev %s ino %lu ret %d pages_written %d pages_skipped %ld more_io %d writeback_index %lu",
jbd2_dev_to_name(__entry->dev),
(unsigned long) __entry->ino, __entry->ret,
__entry->pages_written, __entry->pages_skipped,
__entry->more_io,
__entry->no_nrwrite_index_update,
(unsigned long) __entry->writeback_index)
);