[PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control

The current NFS client congestion logic is severly broken, it marks the
backing device congested during each nfs_writepages() call but doesn't
mirror this in nfs_writepage() which makes for deadlocks.  Also it
implements its own waitqueue.

Replace this by a more regular congestion implementation that puts a cap on
the number of active writeback pages and uses the bdi congestion waitqueue.

Also always use an interruptible wait since it makes sense to be able to
SIGKILL the process even for mounts without 'intr'.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Peter Zijlstra 2007-03-16 13:38:26 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent b74a2f0913
commit 89a09141df
7 changed files with 103 additions and 44 deletions

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@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ struct nfs_server {
struct rpc_clnt * client_acl; /* ACL RPC client handle */
struct nfs_iostats * io_stats; /* I/O statistics */
struct backing_dev_info backing_dev_info;
atomic_t writeback; /* number of writeback pages */
int flags; /* various flags */
unsigned int caps; /* server capabilities */
unsigned int rsize; /* read size */