Steven Whitehouse 4667a0ec32 GFS2: Make writeback more responsive to system conditions ...

This patch adds writeback_control to writing back the AIL
list. This means that we can then take advantage of the
information we get in ->write_inode() in order to set off
some pre-emptive writeback.

In addition, the AIL code is cleaned up a bit to make it
a bit simpler to understand.

There is still more which can usefully be done in this area,
but this is a good start at least.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

2011-04-20 09:01:37 +01:00

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