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authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2017-09-28 11:26:59 -0600
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2017-10-03 08:38:17 -0600
commit595043e5f9ef1d8263bd9fda215cade489227491 (patch)
tree0747af01ce6122bbf730a304444c1aed00d8fd7c /fs/fs-writeback.c
parent47410d88f665486bf91f02242ab5d5692b8887ac (diff)
writeback: provide a wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi()
Similar to wakeup_flusher_threads(), except that we only wake up the flusher threads on the specified backing device. No functional changes in this patch. Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Tested-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/fs-writeback.c39
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index fe555bce886c..9f39829459dc 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -1947,6 +1947,33 @@ void wb_workfn(struct work_struct *work)
}
/*
+ * Start writeback of `nr_pages' pages on this bdi. If `nr_pages' is zero,
+ * write back the whole world.
+ */
+static void __wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
+ long nr_pages, enum wb_reason reason)
+{
+ struct bdi_writeback *wb;
+
+ if (!bdi_has_dirty_io(bdi))
+ return;
+
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(wb, &bdi->wb_list, bdi_node)
+ wb_start_writeback(wb, wb_split_bdi_pages(wb, nr_pages),
+ reason);
+}
+
+void wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
+ enum wb_reason reason)
+{
+ long nr_pages = get_nr_dirty_pages();
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ __wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi(bdi, nr_pages, reason);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+}
+
+/*
* Wakeup the flusher threads to start writeback of all currently dirty pages
*/
void wakeup_flusher_threads(enum wb_reason reason)
@@ -1963,16 +1990,8 @@ void wakeup_flusher_threads(enum wb_reason reason)
nr_pages = get_nr_dirty_pages();
rcu_read_lock();
- list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list) {
- struct bdi_writeback *wb;
-
- if (!bdi_has_dirty_io(bdi))
- continue;
-
- list_for_each_entry_rcu(wb, &bdi->wb_list, bdi_node)
- wb_start_writeback(wb, wb_split_bdi_pages(wb, nr_pages),
- reason);
- }
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list)
+ __wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi(bdi, nr_pages, reason);
rcu_read_unlock();
}