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Commit f3b6a6df authored by Roman Gushchin's avatar Roman Gushchin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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writeback, cgroup: keep list of inodes attached to bdi_writeback

Currently there is no way to iterate over inodes attached to a specific
cgwb structure.  It limits the ability to efficiently reclaim the
writeback structure itself and associated memory and block cgroup
structures without scanning all inodes belonging to a sb, which can be
prohibitively expensive.

While dirty/in-active-writeback an inode belongs to one of the
bdi_writeback's io lists: b_dirty, b_io, b_more_io and b_dirty_time.  Once
cleaned up, it's removed from all io lists.  So the inode->i_io_list can
be reused to maintain the list of inodes, attached to a bdi_writeback
structure.

This patch introduces a new wb->b_attached list, which contains all inodes
which were dirty at least once and are attached to the given cgwb.  Inodes
attached to the root bdi_writeback structures are never placed on such
list.  The following patch will use this list to try to release cgwbs
structures more efficiently.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608230225.2078447-6-guro@fb.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 29264d92
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