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    ext4: restructure writeback path · 4e7ea81d
    Jan Kara 提交于
    There are two issues with current writeback path in ext4.  For one we
    don't necessarily map complete pages when blocksize < pagesize and
    thus needn't do any writeback in one iteration.  We always map some
    blocks though so we will eventually finish mapping the page.  Just if
    writeback races with other operations on the file, forward progress is
    not really guaranteed. The second problem is that current code
    structure makes it hard to associate all the bios to some range of
    pages with one io_end structure so that unwritten extents can be
    converted after all the bios are finished.  This will be especially
    difficult later when io_end will be associated with reserved
    transaction handle.
    
    We restructure the writeback path to a relatively simple loop which
    first prepares extent of pages, then maps one or more extents so that
    no page is partially mapped, and once page is fully mapped it is
    submitted for IO. We keep all the mapping and IO submission
    information in mpage_da_data structure to somewhat reduce stack usage.
    Resulting code is somewhat shorter than the old one and hopefully also
    easier to read.
    Reviewed-by: NZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
    Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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