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authorJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2016-09-01 19:20:33 +0300
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2016-11-08 18:28:55 +0300
commitb57d74aff9ab92fbfb7c197c384d1adfa2827b2e (patch)
treeecb36de5f34865613c9eec3db3c0de034aaf7e33 /mm/backing-dev.c
parent8e1de26cd5db192b52819f5ee97bab308964f3ab (diff)
downloadlinux-b57d74aff9ab92fbfb7c197c384d1adfa2827b2e.tar.xz
writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages()
Note in the bdi_writeback structure whenever a task ends up sleeping waiting for progress. We can use that information in the lower layers to increase the priority of writes. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 8fde443f36d7..3bfed5ab2475 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ static int wb_init(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
spin_lock_init(&wb->work_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wb->work_list);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&wb->dwork, wb_workfn);
+ wb->dirty_sleep = jiffies;
wb->congested = wb_congested_get_create(bdi, blkcg_id, gfp);
if (!wb->congested)