On 05/10/2012 08:44 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they
> create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it
> with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless
> systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part
> of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the
> use of disks and thin clients.
Thank you for working on this. I made the attached patch for software
iscsi which has the same issue as nbd.
I tested the patch here and did not notice any performance regressions
or any other bugs.
>From 917d53f16d1e26b12e90e5e15df76a7a8bee35e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 12:36:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] iscsi: Set SOCK_MEMALLOC for access to PFMEMALLOC
reserves
Set SOCK_MEMALLOC on the iscsi socket to allow access to PFMEMALLOC
reserves to prevent deadlock.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c b/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c
index 453a740..7360f4c 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c
@@ -370,17 +370,24 @@ static inline int iscsi_sw_tcp_xmit_qlen(struct iscsi_conn *conn)
static int iscsi_sw_tcp_pdu_xmit(struct iscsi_task *task)
{
struct iscsi_conn *conn = task->conn;
- int rc;
+ unsigned long pflags = current->flags;
+ int rc = 0;
+
+ current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
while (iscsi_sw_tcp_xmit_qlen(conn)) {
rc = iscsi_sw_tcp_xmit(conn);
- if (rc == 0)
- return -EAGAIN;
+ if (rc == 0) {
+ rc = -EAGAIN;
+ break;
+ }
if (rc < 0)
- return rc;
+ break;
+ rc = 0;
}
- return 0;
+ tsk_restore_flags(current, pflags, PF_MEMALLOC);
+ return rc;
}
/*
@@ -665,6 +672,7 @@ iscsi_sw_tcp_conn_bind(struct iscsi_cls_session *cls_session,
sk->sk_reuse = 1;
sk->sk_sndtimeo = 15 * HZ; /* FIXME: make it configurable */
sk->sk_allocation = GFP_ATOMIC;
+ sk_set_memalloc(sk);
iscsi_sw_tcp_conn_set_callbacks(conn);
tcp_sw_conn->sendpage = tcp_sw_conn->sock->ops->sendpage;
--
1.7.7.6