From b78a38dca6e04634ddc718e315712b45abcf92fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Sandeen Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:57:07 -0500 Subject: fs-writeback: Add helper function to start writeback if idle commit 17bd55d037a02b04d9119511cfd1a4b985d20f63 upstream. ext4, at least, would like to start pushing on writeback if it starts to get close to ENOSPC when reserving worst-case blocks for delalloc writes. Writing out delalloc data will convert those worst-case predictions into usually smaller actual usage, freeing up space before we hit ENOSPC based on this speculation. Thanks to Jens for the suggestion for the helper function, & the naming help. I've made the helper return status on whether writeback was started even though I don't plan to use it in the ext4 patch; it seems like it would be potentially useful to test this in some cases. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen Acked-by: Jan Kara Cc: maximilian attems Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c') diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 9d5360c4c2af..bff5f775e9bc 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -1212,6 +1212,23 @@ void writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *sb) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(writeback_inodes_sb); +/** + * writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle - start writeback if none underway + * @sb: the superblock + * + * Invoke writeback_inodes_sb if no writeback is currently underway. + * Returns 1 if writeback was started, 0 if not. + */ +int writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle(struct super_block *sb) +{ + if (!writeback_in_progress(sb->s_bdi)) { + writeback_inodes_sb(sb); + return 1; + } else + return 0; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle); + /** * sync_inodes_sb - sync sb inode pages * @sb: the superblock -- cgit v1.2.3