writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages()
Note in the bdi_writeback structure whenever a task ends up sleeping
waiting for progress. We can use that information in the lower layers
to increase the priority of writes.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
index c357f27..dc5f76d 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ struct bdi_writeback {
struct list_head work_list;
struct delayed_work dwork; /* work item used for writeback */
+ unsigned long dirty_sleep; /* last wait */
+
struct list_head bdi_node; /* anchored at bdi->wb_list */
#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
