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writeback: fix time ordering of the per superblock inode lists 8
Streamline the management of dirty inode lists and fix time ordering bugs. The writeback logic used to move not-yet-expired dirty inodes from s_dirty to s_io, *only to* move them back. The move-inodes-back-and-forth thing is a mess, which is eliminated by this patch. The new scheme is: - s_dirty acts as a time ordered io delaying queue; - s_io/s_more_io together acts as an io dispatching queue. On kupdate writeback, we pull some inodes from s_dirty to s_io at the start of every full scan of s_io. Otherwise (i.e. for sync/throttle/background writeback), we always pull from s_dirty on each run (a partial scan). Note that the line list_splice_init(&sb->s_more_io, &sb->s_io); is moved to queue_io() to leave s_io empty. Otherwise a big dirtied file will sit in s_io for a long time, preventing new expired inodes to get in. Cc: Ken Chen <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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