On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 04:23:56PM +0800, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > Subject: writeback: quit throttling when fatal signal pending > > From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Wed Sep 08 17:40:22 CST 2010 > > > > This allows quick response to Ctrl-C etc. for impatient users. > > > > It mainly helps the rare bdi/global dirty exceeded cases. > > In the normal case of not exceeded, it will quit the loop anyway. > > > > CC: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > mm/page-writeback.c | 3 +++ > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > > > --- linux-next.orig/mm/page-writeback.c 2010-09-12 13:25:23.000000000 +0800 > > +++ linux-next/mm/page-writeback.c 2010-09-13 11:39:33.000000000 +0800 > > @@ -552,6 +552,9 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a > > __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); > > io_schedule_timeout(pause); > > > > + if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) > > + break; > > + > > check_exceeded: > > /* > > * The bdi thresh is somehow "soft" limit derived from the > > I think we need to change callers (e.g. generic_perform_write) too. > Otherwise, plenty write + SIGKILL combination easily exceed dirty limit. > It mean we can see strange OOM. If it's dangerous, we can do without this patch. The users can still get quick response in normal case after all. However, I suspect the process is guaranteed to exit on fatal_signal_pending, so it won't dirty more pages :) Thanks, Fengguang -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>