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| author | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-28 20:13:21 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-03-01 14:53:38 -0800 |
| commit | 232ea4d69d81169453344b7d05203425c88d973b (patch) | |
| tree | 00799a50022f97a93c0e7524752b817399955851 /mm | |
| parent | b1a316f6f9c54d668df4304ddf935595501ccb25 (diff) | |
[PATCH] throttle_vm_writeout(): don't loop on GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO allocations
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 <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index f7e088f5a309..f469e3cd08e8 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -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. diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 0655d5fe73e8..db023e2ff385 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone, } } - throttle_vm_writeout(); + throttle_vm_writeout(sc->gfp_mask); atomic_dec(&zone->reclaim_in_progress); return nr_reclaimed; |