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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
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1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 3d84fcc471c6..e4f17c53ddfc 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -141,6 +141,31 @@ static void wb_wakeup(struct bdi_writeback *wb) spin_unlock_irq(&wb->work_lock); } +/* + * This function is used when the first inode for this wb is marked dirty. It + * wakes-up the corresponding bdi thread which should then take care of the + * periodic background write-out of dirty inodes. Since the write-out would + * starts only 'dirty_writeback_interval' centisecs from now anyway, we just + * set up a timer which wakes the bdi thread up later. + * + * Note, we wouldn't bother setting up the timer, but this function is on the + * fast-path (used by '__mark_inode_dirty()'), so we save few context switches + * by delaying the wake-up. + * + * We have to be careful not to postpone flush work if it is scheduled for + * earlier. Thus we use queue_delayed_work(). + */ +static void wb_wakeup_delayed(struct bdi_writeback *wb) +{ + unsigned long timeout; + + timeout = msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_writeback_interval * 10); + spin_lock_irq(&wb->work_lock); + if (test_bit(WB_registered, &wb->state)) + queue_delayed_work(bdi_wq, &wb->dwork, timeout); + spin_unlock_irq(&wb->work_lock); +} + static void finish_writeback_work(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct wb_writeback_work *work) { |