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xfs: allow writeback from kswapd

We only need disable I/O from direct or memcg reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Christoph Hellwig 15 년 전
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1개의 변경된 파일4개의 추가작업 그리고 5개의 파일을 삭제
  1. 4 5
      fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c

+ 4 - 5
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c

@@ -1049,16 +1049,15 @@ xfs_vm_writepage(
 	/*
 	 * Refuse to write the page out if we are called from reclaim context.
 	 *
-	 * This is primarily to avoid stack overflows when called from deep
-	 * used stacks in random callers for direct reclaim, but disabling
-	 * reclaim for kswap is a nice side-effect as kswapd causes rather
-	 * suboptimal I/O patters, too.
+	 * This avoids stack overflows when called from deeply used stacks in
+	 * random callers for direct reclaim or memcg reclaim.  We explicitly
+	 * allow reclaim from kswapd as the stack usage there is relatively low.
 	 *
 	 * This should really be done by the core VM, but until that happens
 	 * filesystems like XFS, btrfs and ext4 have to take care of this
 	 * by themselves.
 	 */
-	if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)
+	if ((current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC|PF_KSWAPD)) == PF_MEMALLOC)
 		goto out_fail;
 
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