vfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb()

Do not pin/unpin superblock for every inode in writeback_inodes_wb(), pin
it for the whole group of inodes which belong to the same superblock and
call writeback_sb_inodes() handler for them.

Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Edward Shishkin 2010-03-11 14:09:47 -08:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent c12ec0a2d9
commit f11c9c5c25
2 changed files with 76 additions and 60 deletions

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@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ struct writeback_control {
enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode;
unsigned long *older_than_this; /* If !NULL, only write back inodes
older than this */
unsigned long wb_start; /* Time writeback_inodes_wb was
called. This is needed to avoid
extra jobs and livelock */
long nr_to_write; /* Write this many pages, and decrement
this for each page written */
long pages_skipped; /* Pages which were not written */