From cb9bd1159c5fe8995e151fa7df10fa19f8c119cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wu Fengguang Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:50:57 -0600 Subject: writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes_written The flusher works on dirty inodes in batches, and may quit prematurely if the batch of inodes happen to be metadata-only dirtied: in this case wbc->nr_to_write won't be decreased at all, which stands for "no pages written" but also mis-interpreted as "no progress". So introduce writeback_control.inodes_written to count the inodes get cleaned from VFS POV. A non-zero value means there are some progress on writeback, in which case more writeback can be tried. Acked-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang --- include/linux/writeback.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/writeback.h') diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index 3f6542ca6198..7df9026f7129 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ struct writeback_control { long nr_to_write; /* Write this many pages, and decrement this for each page written */ long pages_skipped; /* Pages which were not written */ + long inodes_written; /* # of inodes written (at least) */ /* * For a_ops->writepages(): is start or end are non-zero then this is -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151