skip writing data pages when inode is under I_SYNC
authorQi Yong <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Tue, 5 Feb 2008 06:29:23 +0000 (22:29 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:44:18 +0000 (09:44 -0800)
Since I_SYNC was split out from I_LOCK, the concern in commit
4b89eed93e0fa40a63e3d7b1796ec1337ea7a3aa ("Write back inode data pages
even when the inode itself is locked") is not longer valid.

We should revert to the original behavior: in __writeback_single_inode(),
when we find an I_SYNC-ed inode and we're not doing a data-integrity sync,
skip writing entirely.  Otherwise, we are double calling do_writepages()

Signed-off-by: Qi Yong <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/fs-writeback.c

index 300324bd563c924ae87c10db7d5171726f8bffc1..3fe782d70a71d5f89ed2b65016d7fda322016701 100644 (file)
@@ -334,9 +334,6 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
                WARN_ON(inode->i_state & I_WILL_FREE);
 
        if ((wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL) && (inode->i_state & I_SYNC)) {
-               struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
-               int ret;
-
                /*
                 * We're skipping this inode because it's locked, and we're not
                 * doing writeback-for-data-integrity.  Move it to s_more_io so
@@ -345,15 +342,7 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
                 * completed a full scan of s_io.
                 */
                requeue_io(inode);
-
-               /*
-                * Even if we don't actually write the inode itself here,
-                * we can at least start some of the data writeout..
-                */
-               spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
-               ret = do_writepages(mapping, wbc);
-               spin_lock(&inode_lock);
-               return ret;
+               return 0;
        }
 
        /*