From 5ac048bb7ea6e87b06504b999017cfa1f38f4092 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Whitehouse Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:25:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] GFS2: Use filemap_fdatawrite() to write back the AIL In order to ensure that the mapping stats (and thus the bdi) are correctly updated, this patch changes the AIL writeback to use the filemap_datawrite function. This helps prevent stalls in balance_dirty_pages() due to large amounts of dirty metadata when there is little or no dirty data around. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse --- fs/gfs2/log.c | 15 +++++---------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/gfs2/log.c b/fs/gfs2/log.c index 5b102c1887fd..3ebafa1efad0 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/log.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/log.c @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ static void gfs2_ail1_start_one(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, struct gfs2_ail *ai) __releases(&sdp->sd_ail_lock) __acquires(&sdp->sd_ail_lock) { + struct gfs2_glock *gl = NULL; struct gfs2_bufdata *bd, *s; struct buffer_head *bh; int retry; @@ -113,19 +114,13 @@ __acquires(&sdp->sd_ail_lock) if (!buffer_dirty(bh)) continue; - + if (gl == bd->bd_gl) + continue; + gl = bd->bd_gl; list_move(&bd->bd_ail_st_list, &ai->ai_ail1_list); - get_bh(bh); spin_unlock(&sdp->sd_ail_lock); - lock_buffer(bh); - if (test_clear_buffer_dirty(bh)) { - bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync; - submit_bh(WRITE_SYNC, bh); - } else { - unlock_buffer(bh); - brelse(bh); - } + filemap_fdatawrite(gfs2_glock2aspace(gl)); spin_lock(&sdp->sd_ail_lock); retry = 1;