On Tue 19-09-17 13:53:06, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Now that we have no external callers of wb_start_writeback(),
> we can move the nr_pages == 0 logic into that function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

...

> +static unsigned long get_nr_dirty_pages(void)
> +{
> +     return global_node_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
> +             global_node_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
> +             get_nr_dirty_inodes();
> +}
> +
>  static void wb_start_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, long nr_pages,
>                              bool range_cyclic, enum wb_reason reason)
>  {
> @@ -942,6 +953,12 @@ static void wb_start_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, 
> long nr_pages,
>               return;
>  
>       /*
> +      * If someone asked for zero pages, we write out the WORLD
> +      */
> +     if (!nr_pages)
> +             nr_pages = get_nr_dirty_pages();
> +

So for 'wb' we have a better estimate of the amount we should write - use
wb_stat_sum(wb, WB_RECLAIMABLE) statistics - that is essentially dirty +
unstable_nfs broken down to bdi_writeback.

                                                                Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <[email protected]>
SUSE Labs, CR

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