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[PATCH] throttle_vm_writeout(): don't loop on GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO allocations

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throttle_vm_writeout() is designed to wait for the dirty levels to subside.
But if the caller holds IO or FS locks, we might be holding up that writeout.

So change it to take a single nap to give other devices a chance to clean some
memory, then return.

Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <[email protected]>
Cc: Kumar Gala <[email protected]>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Andrew Morton 2007-02-28 20:13:21 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 232ea4d69d
3 changed files with 13 additions and 4 deletions
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mm/page-writeback.c
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@ -296,11 +296,21 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
void throttle_vm_writeout(void)
void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
long background_thresh;
long dirty_thresh;
if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) {
/*
* The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
* or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here
* waiting for IO to complete.
*/
congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
return;
}
for ( ; ; ) {
get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL);
@ -317,7 +327,6 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(void)
}
}
/*
* writeback at least _min_pages, and keep writing until the amount of dirty
* memory is less than the background threshold, or until we're all clean.