writeback: fix time ordering of the per superblock dirty inode lists 5

When the writeback function is operating in writeback-for-flushing mode (as
opposed to writeback-for-integrity) and it encounters an I_LOCKed inode, it
will skip writing that inode.  This is done for throughput and latency: move
on to another inode rather than blocking for this one.

Writeback skips this inode by moving it off s_io and onto s_dirty, so that
writeback can proceed with the other inodes on s_io.

However that inode movement can corrupt s_dirty's reverse-time-orderedness.
Fix that by using the new redirty_tail(), which will update the refiled
inode's dirtied_when field.

Note: the behaviour in here is a bit rude: if kupdate happens to come across a
locked inode then it will defer writeback of that inode for another 30
seconds.  We'll address that in the next patch.

Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index a3d7a82..1b43cc9 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
                struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
                int ret;
 
-               list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode->i_sb->s_dirty);
+               redirty_tail(inode);
 
                /*
                 * Even if we don't actually write the inode itself here,