Re: [PATCH 4/5] xfs: introduce background inode reclaim work

[Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:36:34AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > +void
> > +xfs_syncd_queue_reclaim(
> > +   struct xfs_mount        *mp,
> > +   int                     flags)
> > +{
> > +   mutex_lock(&xfs_syncd_lock);
> > +   if (!delayed_work_pending(&mp->m_reclaim_work))
> > +           queue_delayed_work(xfs_syncd_wq, &mp->m_reclaim_work,
> > +                   xfs_syncd_centisecs / 5 * msecs_to_jiffies(10));
> > +   mutex_unlock(&xfs_syncd_lock);
> > +
> > +   if (flags & SYNC_WAIT)
> > +           flush_delayed_work_sync(&mp->m_reclaim_work);
> > +}
> 
> queue_work/queue_delayed_work have a test_set_bit on
> WORK_STRUCT_PENDING_BIT, so can just call queue_work/queue_delayed_work
> and it will do the right thing if it is in use.  So you can remove the
> mutex and delayed_work_pending check here.
> 

Yup, it's already gone. :)

> At least currently SYNC_WAIT is never set by any caller, and I wonder if
> we should just leave the waiting to the caller if we ever grow one.

I can remove it - it is a left over from testing different methods
of throttling the shrinker.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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