From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] VFS: Rename and refactor writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:10:29 +0800
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Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
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To: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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On tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:34:05 +0800, Miao Xie wrote:
> On thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:04:34 -0800, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
>>  /**
>> - * writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle	-	start writeback if none underway
>> + * try_to_writeback_inodes_sb_nr	-	start writeback if none underway
>>   * @sb: the superblock
>>   * @nr: the number of pages to write
>>   *
>>   * Invoke writeback_inodes_sb if no writeback is currently underway.
>>   * Returns 1 if writeback was started, 0 if not.
>>   */
>> -int writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle(struct super_block *sb,
>> +int try_to_writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *sb,
>>  				   unsigned long nr,
>>  				   enum wb_reason reason)
>>  {
>>  	if (!writeback_in_progress(sb->s_bdi)) {
>>  		down_read(&sb->s_umount);
>> -		writeback_inodes_sb_nr(sb, nr, reason);
>> +		if (nr == 0)
>> +			writeback_inodes_sb(sb, reason);
>> +		else
>> +			writeback_inodes_sb_nr(sb, nr, reason);
>>  		up_read(&sb->s_umount);
>>  		return 1;
>>  	} else
>>  		return 0;
> 
> The comment said "Returns 1 if writeback was started", so if writeback_in_progress()
> return true, I think this function also should return 1.
> 
> BTW: Does anyone know when this patchset will be merged into the main tree?
> 
> Thanks
> Miao
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