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Write back inode data pages even when the inode itself is locked

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In __writeback_single_inode(), when we find a locked inode and we're not
doing a data-integrity sync, we used to just skip writing entirely,
since we didn't want to wait for the inode to unlock.

However, there's really no reason to skip writing the data pages, which
are likely to be the the bulk of the dirty state anyway (and the main
reason why writeback was started for the non-data-integrity case, of
course!)

Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds 2007-01-26 12:53:20 -08:00
parent ecdfc9787f
commit 4b89eed93e
1 changed files with 12 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -251,8 +251,19 @@ __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_LOCK)) {
struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
int ret;
list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode->i_sb->s_dirty);
return 0;
/*
* 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;
}
/*