From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:44:56 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: xfs: handle negative wbc->nr_to_write during sync writeback
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.36-rc3~27^2~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=efceab1d563153a2b1a6e7d35376241a48126989;p=pandora-kernel.git

xfs: handle negative wbc->nr_to_write during sync writeback

During data integrity (WB_SYNC_ALL) writeback, wbc->nr_to_write will
go negative on inodes with more than 1024 dirty pages due to
implementation details of write_cache_pages(). Currently XFS will
abort page clustering in writeback once nr_to_write drops below
zero, and so for data integrity writeback we will do very
inefficient page at a time allocation and IO submission for inodes
with large numbers of dirty pages.

Fix this by only aborting the page clustering code when
wbc->nr_to_write is negative and the sync mode is WB_SYNC_NONE.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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