On Fri 18-03-16 14:11:36, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 16-03-16 13:46:17, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > (cc'ing Jan)
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 05:09:00PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Sun 13-03-16 23:22:23, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > I am not familiar with the writeback code so I might be missing
> > > something essential here but why are we even queueing more and more
> > > work without checking there has been enough already scheduled or in
> > > progress.
> > >
> > > Something as simple as:
> > > diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> > > index 6915c950e6e8..aa52e23ac280 100644
> > > --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
> > > +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> > > @@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ void wb_start_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, long nr_pages,
> > > {
> > > struct wb_writeback_work *work;
> > >
> > > - if (!wb_has_dirty_io(wb))
> > > + if (!wb_has_dirty_io(wb) || writeback_in_progress(wb))
> > > return;
> >
> > I'm not sure this would be safe. It shouldn't harm correctness as
> > wb_start_writeback() isn't used in sync case but this might change
> > flush behavior in various ways. Dropping GFP_ATOMIC as suggested by
> > Tetsuo is likely better.
>
> Yes, there can be different requests for different numbers of pages to be
> written and you don't want to discard a request to clean 4000 pages just
> because a writeback of 10 pages is just running. As Tejun says, this is not
> a hard requirement but in general it would be unexpected for the users of
> the api...
Thanks for the clarification. Then the proper fix indeed is to add
__GFP_NOMEMALLOC.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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