From c5444198ca210498e8ac0ba121b4cd3537aa12f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 18:15:15 +0200 Subject: writeback: simplify and split bdi_start_writeback bdi_start_writeback now never gets a superblock passed, so we can just remove that case. And to further untangle the code and flatten the call stack split it into two trivial helpers for it's two callers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/backing-dev.h') diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h index aee5f6ce166e..9ae2889096b6 100644 --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h @@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *parent, int bdi_register_dev(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, dev_t dev); void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi); int bdi_setup_and_register(struct backing_dev_info *, char *, unsigned int); -void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct super_block *sb, - long nr_pages); +void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, long nr_pages); +void bdi_start_background_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi); int bdi_writeback_task(struct bdi_writeback *wb); int bdi_has_dirty_io(struct backing_dev_info *bdi); void bdi_arm_supers_timer(void); -- cgit v1.2.3 From 83ba7b071f30f7c01f72518ad72d5cd203c27502 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 08:59:53 +0200 Subject: writeback: simplify the write back thread queue First remove items from work_list as soon as we start working on them. This means we don't have to track any pending or visited state and can get rid of all the RCU magic freeing the work items - we can simply free them once the operation has finished. Second use a real completion for tracking synchronous requests - if the caller sets the completion pointer we complete it, otherwise use it as a boolean indicator that we can free the work item directly. Third unify struct wb_writeback_args and struct bdi_work into a single data structure, wb_writeback_work. Previous we set all parameters into a struct wb_writeback_args, copied it into struct bdi_work, copied it again on the stack to use it there. Instead of just allocate one structure dynamically or on the stack and use it all the way through the stack. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/backing-dev.h') diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h index 9ae2889096b6..e9aec0d099df 100644 --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h @@ -82,8 +82,6 @@ struct backing_dev_info { struct bdi_writeback wb; /* default writeback info for this bdi */ spinlock_t wb_lock; /* protects update side of wb_list */ struct list_head wb_list; /* the flusher threads hanging off this bdi */ - unsigned long wb_mask; /* bitmask of registered tasks */ - unsigned int wb_cnt; /* number of registered tasks */ struct list_head work_list; -- cgit v1.2.3