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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fs-writeback.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 565b1fd15be6..d0553f33fb50 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -544,15 +544,6 @@ static int writeback_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, struct bdi_writeback *wb, continue; } - /* - * Was this inode dirtied after sync_sb_inodes was called? - * This keeps sync from extra jobs and livelock. - */ - if (inode_dirtied_after(inode, wbc->wb_start)) { - spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); - return 1; - } - __iget(inode); pages_skipped = wbc->pages_skipped; @@ -585,9 +576,6 @@ static void __writeback_inodes_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb, { int ret = 0; - if (!wbc->wb_start) - wbc->wb_start = jiffies; /* livelock avoidance */ - while (!list_empty(&wb->b_io)) { struct inode *inode = wb_inode(wb->b_io.prev); struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; @@ -686,7 +674,9 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, if (wbc.sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc.tagged_writepages) write_chunk = LONG_MAX; - wbc.wb_start = jiffies; /* livelock avoidance */ + oldest_jif = jiffies; + wbc.older_than_this = &oldest_jif; + spin_lock(&wb->list_lock); for (;;) { /* |