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Now we have a cached buffer on inode log items, we don't need to do buffer lookups when flushing inodes anymore - all we need to do is lock the buffer and we are ready to go. This largely gets rid of the need for xfs_iflush(), which is essentially just a mechanism to look up the buffer and flush the inode to it. Instead, we can just call xfs_iflush_cluster() with a few modifications to ensure it also flushes the inode we already hold locked. This allows the AIL inode item pushing to be almost entirely non-blocking in XFS - we won't block unless memory allocation for the cluster inode lookup blocks or the block device queues are full. Writeback during inode reclaim becomes a little more complex because we now have to lock the buffer ourselves, but otherwise this change is largely a functional no-op that removes a whole lot of code. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.