On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:12:05AM +0800, Chao Yu wrote: > We should de-account dirty counters for page when redirty in ->writepage(). > > Wu Fengguang described in 'commit 971767caf632190f77a40b4011c19948232eed75': > "writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty > De-account the accumulative dirty counters on page redirty. > > Page redirties (very common in ext4) will introduce mismatch between > counters (a) and (b) > > a) NR_DIRTIED, BDI_DIRTIED, tsk->nr_dirtied > b) NR_WRITTEN, BDI_WRITTEN > > This will introduce systematic errors in balanced_rate and result in > dirty page position errors (ie. the dirty pages are no longer balanced > around the global/bdi setpoints)." > > Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2...@samsung.com> > --- > fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c | 1 + > fs/f2fs/data.c | 1 + > fs/f2fs/node.c | 1 + > 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c > index c8516ee..f069249 100644 > --- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c > +++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c > @@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ no_write: > redirty_out: > dec_page_count(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_META); > wbc->pages_skipped++; > + account_page_redirty(page); > set_page_dirty(page); > return AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE;
redirty_page_for_writepage()? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner da...@fromorbit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
