This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
NFS: Add a cond_resched() to nfs_commit_release_pages()
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
nfs-add-a-cond_resched-to-nfs_commit_release_pages.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7f1bda447c9bd48b415acedba6b830f61591601f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:39:13 -0500
Subject: NFS: Add a cond_resched() to nfs_commit_release_pages()
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 7f1bda447c9bd48b415acedba6b830f61591601f upstream.
The commit list can get very large, and so we need a cond_resched()
in nfs_commit_release_pages() in order to ensure we don't hog the CPU
for excessive periods of time.
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfs/write.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -1646,6 +1646,8 @@ static void nfs_commit_release_pages(str
set_bit(NFS_CONTEXT_RESEND_WRITES, &req->wb_context->flags);
next:
nfs_unlock_and_release_request(req);
+ /* Latency breaker */
+ cond_resched();
}
nfss = NFS_SERVER(data->inode);
if (atomic_long_read(&nfss->writeback) < NFS_CONGESTION_OFF_THRESH)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/nfs-add-a-cond_resched-to-nfs_commit_release_pages.patch
queue-3.18/nfs-commit-direct-writes-even-if-they-fail-partially.patch