fs/writeback: Attach inode's wb to root if needed
There might have tons of files queued in the writeback, awaiting for writing back. Unfortunately, the writeback's cgroup has been dead. In this case, we reassociate the inode with another writeback, but we possibly can't because the writeback associated with the dead cgroup is the only valid one. In this case, the new writeback is allocated, initialized and associated with the inode in the non-stopping fashion until all data resident in the inode's page cache are flushed to disk. It causes unnecessary high system load. This fixes the issue by enforce moving the inode to root cgroup when the previous binding cgroup becomes dead. With it, no more unnecessary writebacks are created, populated and the system load decreased by about 6x in the test case we carried out: Without the patch: 30% system load With the patch: 5% system load Signed-off-by: Nluanshi <zhangliguang@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: NJiufei Xue <jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: NJoseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
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