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[PATCH 3/8] writeback: use WRITE_SYNC for reclaim or sync writeback

From Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 3/8] writeback: use WRITE_SYNC for reclaim or sync writeback
Date 2016-03-23 16:30 +0100
Message-ID <rfSTo-5lq-35@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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If we're doing reclaim or sync IO, use WRITE_SYNC to inform the lower
levels of the importance of this IO.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
---
 include/linux/writeback.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 719c255e105a..b2c75b8901da 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ struct writeback_control {
 
 static inline int wbc_to_write(struct writeback_control *wbc)
 {
-	if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL)
+	if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->for_reclaim || wbc->for_sync)
 		return WRITE_SYNC;
 
 	return WRITE;
-- 
2.4.1.168.g1ea28e1

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(none) Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2016-03-23 16:30 +0100
  [PATCH 8/8] writeback: throttle buffered writeback Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2016-03-23 16:30 +0100
  [PATCH 6/8] sd: inform block layer of write cache state Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2016-03-23 16:30 +0100
  [PATCH 3/8] writeback: use WRITE_SYNC for reclaim or sync writeback Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2016-03-23 16:30 +0100
  [PATCHSET v2][RFC] Make background writeback not suck Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2016-03-23 16:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCHSET v2][RFC] Make background writeback not suck Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2016-03-24 18:50 +0100

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