[12/14] writeback: Move the folio_prepare_writeback loop out of write_cache_pages()

Commit Message

Christoph Hellwig Feb. 12, 2024, 7:13 a.m. UTC

From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <[e-mail]>

Move the loop for should-we-write-this-folio to writeback_get_folio.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[e-mail]>
[hch: folded the loop into the existing helper instead of a separate one
      as suggested by Jan Kara]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[e-mail]>
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <[e-mail]>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 62b663debe713b..01f076db4f2118 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2411,6 +2411,7 @@  static struct folio *writeback_get_folio(struct address_space *mapping,
 {
 	struct folio *folio;
 
+retry:
 	folio = folio_batch_next(&wbc->fbatch);
 	if (!folio) {
 		folio_batch_release(&wbc->fbatch);
@@ -2418,8 +2419,17 @@  static struct folio *writeback_get_folio(struct address_space *mapping,
 		filemap_get_folios_tag(mapping, &wbc->index, wbc_end(wbc),
 				wbc_to_tag(wbc), &wbc->fbatch);
 		folio = folio_batch_next(&wbc->fbatch);
+		if (!folio)
+			return NULL;
+	}
+
+	folio_lock(folio);
+	if (unlikely(!folio_prepare_writeback(mapping, wbc, folio))) {
+		folio_unlock(folio);
+		goto retry;
 	}
 
+	trace_wbc_writepage(wbc, inode_to_bdi(mapping->host));
 	return folio;
 }
 
@@ -2480,14 +2490,6 @@  int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 		if (!folio)
 			break;
 
-		folio_lock(folio);
-		if (!folio_prepare_writeback(mapping, wbc, folio)) {
-			folio_unlock(folio);
-			continue;
-		}
-
-		trace_wbc_writepage(wbc, inode_to_bdi(mapping->host));
-
 		error = writepage(folio, wbc, data);
 		wbc->nr_to_write -= folio_nr_pages(folio);