The patch titled
writeback-remove-pages_skipped-accounting-in-__block_write_full_page fix
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
writeback-remove-pages_skipped-accounting-in-__block_write_full_page-fix.patch
This patch was dropped because it was folded into
writeback-remove-pages_skipped-accounting-in-__block_write_full_page.patch
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Subject: writeback-remove-pages_skipped-accounting-in-__block_write_full_page
fix
From: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:55:18AM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> >
> > do not quite agree with each other. The page writeback should be skipped for
> > 'locked buffer', but here it is 'clean buffer'!
>
> Ok, so that means we need an equivalent fix in xfs_start_page_writeback()
> as it will skip pages with clean buffers just like this. Something like
> this (untested)?
Sure OK - as long as it is 'no write because of clean buffer'.
The only user of pages_skipped is obviously using that semantics.
Cc: Ken Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c~writeback-remove-pages_skipped-accounting-in-__block_write_full_page-fix
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
---
a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c~writeback-remove-pages_skipped-accounting-in-__block_write_full_page-fix
+++ a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
@@ -415,10 +415,9 @@ xfs_start_page_writeback(
clear_page_dirty_for_io(page);
set_page_writeback(page);
unlock_page(page);
- if (!buffers) {
+ /* If no buffers on the page are to be written, finish it here */
+ if (!buffers)
end_page_writeback(page);
- wbc->pages_skipped++; /* We didn't write this page */
- }
}
static inline int bio_add_buffer(struct bio *bio, struct buffer_head *bh)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are
origin.patch
convert-ill-defined-log2-to-ilog2.patch
avoid-negative-and-full-width-shifts-in-radix-treec.patch
writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-inode-lists-8.patch
writeback-fix-ntfs-with-sb_has_dirty_inodes.patch
writeback-remove-pages_skipped-accounting-in-__block_write_full_page.patch
writeback-remove-pages_skipped-accounting-in-__block_write_full_page-fix.patch
writeback-introduce-writeback_controlmore_io-to-indicate-more-io.patch
writeback-remove-unnecessary-wait-in-throttle_vm_writeout.patch
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