[PATCH] throttle_vm_writeout(): don't loop on GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO allocations
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 1 Mar 2007 04:13:21 +0000 (20:13 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:53:38 +0000 (14:53 -0800)
commit232ea4d69d81169453344b7d05203425c88d973b
tree00799a50022f97a93c0e7524752b817399955851
parentb1a316f6f9c54d668df4304ddf935595501ccb25
[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>
include/linux/writeback.h
mm/page-writeback.c
mm/vmscan.c