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xfs: force buffer writeback before blocking on the ilock in inode reclaim
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:06:14 +0000 (12:06 -0600)
committerBen Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:06:14 +0000 (12:06 -0600)
commit2c4f29953c1542827aec83690c94395509878835
treef48cbb282ad4d52649b594657f00c1c8be753a47
parenteec47bbf6020329bdc4dfc35d8ea4ca02593c48b
xfs: force buffer writeback before blocking on the ilock in inode reclaim

If we are doing synchronous inode reclaim we block the VM from making
progress in memory reclaim.  So if we encouter a flush locked inode
promote it in the delwri list and wake up xfsbufd to write it out now.
Without this we can get hangs of up to 30 seconds during workloads hitting
synchronous inode reclaim.

The scheme is copied from what we do for dquot reclaims.

Reported-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c