NFS: Fix a race when doing NFS write coalescing

Currently we do write coalescing in a very inefficient manner: one pass in
generic_writepages() in order to lock the pages for writing, then one pass
in nfs_flush_mapping() and/or nfs_sync_mapping_wait() in order to gather
the locked pages for coalescing into RPC requests of size "wsize".

In fact, it turns out there is actually a deadlock possible here since we
only start I/O on the second pass. If the user signals the process while
we're in nfs_sync_mapping_wait(), for instance, then we may exit before
starting I/O on all the requests that have been queued up.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This commit is contained in:
Trond Myklebust 2007-04-02 19:29:52 -04:00
parent 8b09bee308
commit c63c7b0513
4 changed files with 50 additions and 201 deletions

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@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ struct writeback_control {
unsigned for_reclaim:1; /* Invoked from the page allocator */
unsigned for_writepages:1; /* This is a writepages() call */
unsigned range_cyclic:1; /* range_start is cyclic */
void *fs_private; /* For use by ->writepages() */
};
/*