throttle_vm_writeout(): don't loop on GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO allocations
commit5b214a4e6cf6557ca118c3dd5843b809f0d2fde9
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 1 Mar 2007 04:13:21 +0000 (28 20:13 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:50:31 +0000 (9 10:50 -0800)
tree87f76a74ad43fe3e55c4347d4afc1a97dee69e9c
parent0ad1314a8374ed30092752d8406e9cc5940f58fa
throttle_vm_writeout(): don't loop on GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO allocations

throttle_vm_writeout() is designed to wait for the dirty levels to subside.
But if the caller holds IO or FS locks, we might be holding up that writeout.

So change it to take a single nap to give other devices a chance to clean some
memory, then return.

Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
include/linux/writeback.h
mm/page-writeback.c
mm/vmscan.c