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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2008-10-14 17:20:19 +0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2008-10-14 17:20:19 +0400
commitaf6f029d3836eb7264cd3fbb13a6baf0e5fdb5ea (patch)
treeb7c1334ad5fab10eaf4962c79ad6025d334b902c /fs
parent8a0aba733db1adb5e1f0e828889a18f4c1c512de (diff)
downloadlinux-af6f029d3836eb7264cd3fbb13a6baf0e5fdb5ea.tar.xz
ext4: Use tag dirty lookup during mpage_da_submit_io
This enables us to drop the range_cont writeback mode use from ext4_da_writepages. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/inode.c30
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 9b4ec9decfd1..4ee3f0692eeb 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1656,17 +1656,23 @@ static int mpage_da_submit_io(struct mpage_da_data *mpd)
while (index <= end) {
/* XXX: optimize tail */
- nr_pages = pagevec_lookup(&pvec, mapping, index, PAGEVEC_SIZE);
+ /*
+ * We can use PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY lookup here because
+ * even though we have cleared the dirty flag on the page
+ * We still keep the page in the radix tree with tag
+ * PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY. See clear_page_dirty_for_io.
+ * The PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY is cleared in set_page_writeback
+ * which is called via the below writepage callback.
+ */
+ nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index,
+ PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY,
+ min(end - index,
+ (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1);
if (nr_pages == 0)
break;
for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
- index = page->index;
- if (index > end)
- break;
- index++;
-
err = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, mpd->wbc);
if (!err)
mpd->pages_written++;
@@ -2361,7 +2367,6 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
struct writeback_control *wbc)
{
handle_t *handle = NULL;
- loff_t range_start = 0;
struct mpage_da_data mpd;
struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
int needed_blocks, ret = 0, nr_to_writebump = 0;
@@ -2386,14 +2391,7 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
wbc->nr_to_write = sbi->s_mb_stream_request;
}
- if (!wbc->range_cyclic)
- /*
- * If range_cyclic is not set force range_cont
- * and save the old writeback_index
- */
- wbc->range_cont = 1;
- range_start = wbc->range_start;
pages_skipped = wbc->pages_skipped;
mpd.wbc = wbc;
@@ -2452,9 +2450,8 @@ restart_loop:
wbc->nr_to_write = to_write;
}
- if (wbc->range_cont && (pages_skipped != wbc->pages_skipped)) {
+ if (!wbc->range_cyclic && (pages_skipped != wbc->pages_skipped)) {
/* We skipped pages in this loop */
- wbc->range_start = range_start;
wbc->nr_to_write = to_write +
wbc->pages_skipped - pages_skipped;
wbc->pages_skipped = pages_skipped;
@@ -2463,7 +2460,6 @@ restart_loop:
out_writepages:
wbc->nr_to_write = to_write - nr_to_writebump;
- wbc->range_start = range_start;
return ret;
}