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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 <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>
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Andrew Morton 2007-02-28 20:13:21 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent b1a316f6f9
commit 232ea4d69d
3 changed files with 13 additions and 4 deletions
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include/linux/writeback.h
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@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static inline void wait_on_inode(struct inode *inode)
int wakeup_pdflush(long nr_pages);
void laptop_io_completion(void);
void laptop_sync_completion(void);
void throttle_vm_writeout(void);
void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask);
/* These are exported to sysctl. */
extern int dirty_background_ratio;