/*
* The maximum number of pages to writeout in a single bdflush/kupdate
- * operation. We do this so we don't hold I_LOCK against an inode for
+ * operation. We do this so we don't hold I_SYNC against an inode for
* enormous amounts of time, which would block a userspace task which has
* been forced to throttle against that inode. Also, the code reevaluates
* the dirty each time it has written this many pages.
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, NULL);
global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
break;
congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
+
+ /*
+ * 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.
+ */
+ if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO))
+ break;
}
}
global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) < background_thresh
&& min_pages <= 0)
break;
+ wbc.more_io = 0;
wbc.encountered_congestion = 0;
wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
wbc.pages_skipped = 0;
min_pages -= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write;
if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0 || wbc.pages_skipped > 0) {
/* Wrote less than expected */
- congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
- if (!wbc.encountered_congestion)
+ if (wbc.encountered_congestion || wbc.more_io)
+ congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
+ else
break;
}
}
global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
(inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused);
while (nr_to_write > 0) {
+ wbc.more_io = 0;
wbc.encountered_congestion = 0;
wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
writeback_inodes(&wbc);
if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0) {
- if (wbc.encountered_congestion)
+ if (wbc.encountered_congestion || wbc.more_io)
congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
else
break; /* All the old data is written */