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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fs-writeback.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 36ef1a796d4b..af5f396449f1 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -445,22 +445,23 @@ static bool inode_do_switch_wbs(struct inode *inode, * Transfer to @new_wb's IO list if necessary. If the @inode is dirty, * the specific list @inode was on is ignored and the @inode is put on * ->b_dirty which is always correct including from ->b_dirty_time. - * The transfer preserves @inode->dirtied_when ordering. If the @inode - * was clean, it means it was on the b_attached list, so move it onto - * the b_attached list of @new_wb. + * If the @inode was clean, it means it was on the b_attached list, so + * move it onto the b_attached list of @new_wb. */ if (!list_empty(&inode->i_io_list)) { inode->i_wb = new_wb; if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL) { - struct inode *pos; - - list_for_each_entry(pos, &new_wb->b_dirty, i_io_list) - if (time_after_eq(inode->dirtied_when, - pos->dirtied_when)) - break; + /* + * We need to keep b_dirty list sorted by + * dirtied_time_when. However properly sorting the + * inode in the list gets too expensive when switching + * many inodes. So just attach inode at the end of the + * dirty list and clobber the dirtied_time_when. + */ + inode->dirtied_time_when = jiffies; inode_io_list_move_locked(inode, new_wb, - pos->i_io_list.prev); + &new_wb->b_dirty); } else { inode_cgwb_move_to_attached(inode, new_wb); } |