[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>
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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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@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone,
}
}
throttle_vm_writeout();
throttle_vm_writeout(sc->gfp_mask);
atomic_dec(&zone->reclaim_in_progress);
return nr_reclaimed;