Add new functions for triggering inode writeback

When btrfs is running low on metadata space, it needs to force delayed
allocation pages to disk.  It currently does this with a suboptimal walk
of a private list of inodes with delayed allocation, and it would be
much better if we used the generic flusher threads.

writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle would be ideal, but it waits for the flusher
thread to start IO on all the dirty pages in the FS before it returns.
This adds variants of writeback_inodes_sb* that allow the caller to
control how many pages get sent down.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
This commit is contained in:
Chris Mason 2010-10-29 11:16:17 -04:00
parent cb44921a09
commit 3259f8bed2
2 changed files with 44 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ struct writeback_control {
struct bdi_writeback;
int inode_wait(void *);
void writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *);
void writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr);
int writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle(struct super_block *);
int writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr);
void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *);
void writeback_inodes_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
struct writeback_control *wbc);