Artem Bityutskiy 080dcec417 writeback: simplify bdi code a little ... This patch simplifies bdi code a little by removing the 'pending_list' which is redundant. Indeed, currently the forker thread ('bdi_forker_thread()') is working like this: 1. In a loop, fetch all bdi's which have works but have no writeback thread and move them to the 'pending_list'. 2. If the list is empty, sleep for 5 sec. 3. Otherwise, take one bdi from the list, fork the writeback thread for this bdi, and repeat the loop. IOW, it first moves everything to the 'pending_list', then process only one element, and so on. This patch simplifies the algorithm, which is now as follows. 1. Find the first bdi which has a work and remove it from the global list of bdi's (bdi_list). 2. If there was not such bdi, sleep 5 sec. 3. Fork the writeback thread for this bdi and repeat the loop. IOW, now we find the first bdi to process, process it, and so on. This is simpler and involves less lists. The bonus now is that we can get rid of a couple of functions, as well as remove complications which involve 'rcu_call()' and 'bdi->rcu_head'. This patch also makes sure we use 'list_add_tail_rcu()', instead of plain 'list_add_tail()', but this piece of code is going to be removed in the next patch anyway. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>		2010-08-07 18:53:56 +02:00
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backing-dev.c	writeback: simplify bdi code a little	2010-08-07 18:53:56 +02:00
bootmem.c	x86,nobootmem: make alloc_bootmem_node fall back to other node when 32bit numa is used	2010-07-20 16:25:40 -07:00
bounce.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
compaction.c	mm: compaction: add a tunable that decides when memory should be compacted and when it should be reclaimed	2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c	dmapools: protect page_list walk in show_pools()	2009-06-30 18:56:00 -07:00
fadvise.c	readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM	2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
failslab.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap_xip.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap.c	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse	2010-05-30 09:16:14 -07:00
fremap.c	mm: clean up mm_counter	2010-03-06 11:26:23 -08:00
highmem.c	highmem: remove unneeded #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT for debug_kmap_atomic()	2010-05-25 08:07:01 -07:00
hugetlb.c	cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems	2010-05-25 08:06:57 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c	HWPOISON: Don't do early filtering if filter is disabled	2009-12-16 12:20:01 +01:00
init-mm.c	mm: consolidate init_mm definition	2009-06-16 19:47:28 -07:00
internal.h	HWPOISON: add an interface to switch off/on all the page filters	2009-12-16 12:19:59 +01:00
Kconfig	lmb: rename to memblock	2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
Kconfig.debug	trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options	2009-09-21 15:14:57 +02:00
kmemcheck.c	kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
kmemleak-test.c	percpu: clean up percpu variable definitions	2009-06-24 15:13:48 +09:00
kmemleak.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
ksm.c	mm: migration: share the anon_vma ref counts between KSM and page migration	2010-05-25 08:06:58 -07:00
maccess.c	maccess,probe_kernel: Allow arch specific override probe_kernel_(read|write)	2010-01-07 11:58:36 -06:00
madvise.c	HWPOISON: Add a madvise() injector for soft page offlining	2009-12-16 12:20:00 +01:00
Makefile	lmb: rename to memblock	2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
memblock.c	lmb: rename to memblock	2010-07-14 17:14:00 +10:00
memcontrol.c	memcg: fix wake up in oom wait queue	2010-06-29 15:29:30 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c	mem-hotplug: fix potential race while building zonelist for new populated zone	2010-05-25 08:07:02 -07:00
memory-failure.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
memory.c	mm: fix ia64 crash when gcore reads gate area	2010-07-30 18:56:09 -07:00
mempolicy.c	mempolicy: fix dangling reference to tmpfs superblock mpol	2010-06-29 15:29:31 -07:00
mempool.c	mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool	2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
migrate.c	memcg: fix mis-accounting of file mapped racy with migration	2010-05-27 09:12:44 -07:00
mincore.c	mincore: do nested page table walks	2010-05-25 08:06:58 -07:00
mlock.c	x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code	2010-03-26 11:33:55 +01:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c	mmap: check ->vm_ops before dereferencing	2010-04-27 08:26:51 -07:00
mmu_context.c	exit: fix oops in sync_mm_rss	2010-03-24 16:31:21 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
mremap.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
msync.c	sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions	2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
nommu.c	nommu: allow private mappings of read-only devices	2010-05-26 08:19:23 -07:00
oom_kill.c	memcg: make oom killer a no-op when no killable task can be found	2010-05-27 09:12:43 -07:00
page_alloc.c	x86,nobootmem: make alloc_bootmem_node fall back to other node when 32bit numa is used	2010-07-20 16:25:40 -07:00
page_cgroup.c	kmemleak: Annotate false positive in init_section_page_cgroup()	2010-07-19 11:54:14 +01:00
page_io.c	block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request	2010-08-07 18:20:39 +02:00
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c	writeback: Add tracing to write_cache_pages	2010-08-07 18:24:26 +02:00
pagewalk.c	pagemap: fix pfn calculation for hugepage	2010-04-07 08:38:04 -07:00
percpu_up.c	percpu: don't implicitly include slab.h from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
percpu-km.c	percpu: implement kernel memory based chunk allocation	2010-05-01 08:30:50 +02:00
percpu-vm.c	percpu: move vmalloc based chunk management into percpu-vm.c	2010-05-01 08:30:50 +02:00
percpu.c	percpu: fix first chunk match in per_cpu_ptr_to_phys()	2010-06-18 15:07:23 +02:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
readahead.c	readahead.c: fix comment	2010-05-25 08:07:00 -07:00
rmap.c	mm: migration: avoid race between shift_arg_pages() and rmap_walk() during migration by not migrating temporary stacks	2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
shmem.c	fix truncate inode time modification breakage	2010-06-04 17:16:30 -04:00
slab.c	numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node	2010-05-27 09:12:57 -07:00
slob.c	mm: Move ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN and ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to <linux/slob_def.h>	2010-05-19 22:03:13 +03:00
slub.c	Merge branch 'slub/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6	2010-05-30 12:46:17 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
sparse.c	sparsemem: on no vmemmap path put mem_map on node high too	2010-05-25 08:06:56 -07:00
swap_state.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
swap.c	mm: export lru_cache_add_*() to modules	2010-05-25 15:06:06 +02:00
swapfile.c	Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6	2010-05-21 15:26:46 -07:00
thrash.c	mm: pass mm to grab_swap_token	2009-06-23 12:50:05 -07:00
truncate.c	fs: introduce new truncate sequence	2010-05-27 22:15:33 -04:00
util.c	slab: Generify kernel pointer validation	2010-04-09 10:09:50 -07:00
vmalloc.c	mm: purge fragmented percpu vmap blocks	2010-02-02 12:50:47 -08:00
vmscan.c	mm/vmscan.c: fix mapping use after free	2010-07-20 16:25:40 -07:00
vmstat.c	mm: compaction: direct compact when a high-order allocation fails	2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00