From 6585027a5e8cb490e3a761b2f3f3c3acf722aff2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:45:44 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] writeback: integrated background writeback work Check whether background writeback is needed after finishing each work. When bdi flusher thread finishes doing some work check whether any kind of background writeback needs to be done (either because dirty_background_ratio is exceeded or because we need to start flushing old inodes). If so, just do background write back. This way, bdi_start_background_writeback() just needs to wake up the flusher thread. It will do background writeback as soon as there is no other work. This is a preparatory patch for the next patch which stops background writeback as soon as there is other work to do. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed