From c5f7ad233b8805dae06e694538d8095b19f3c560 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Artem Bityutskiy Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:29:13 +0300 Subject: writeback: do not lose wake-ups in the forker thread - 1 Currently the forker thread can lose wake-ups which may lead to unnecessary delays in processing bdi works. E.g., consider the following scenario. 1. 'bdi_forker_thread()' walks the 'bdi_list', finds out there is nothing to do, and is about to finish the loop. 2. A bdi thread decides to exit because it was inactive for long time. 3. 'bdi_queue_work()' adds a work to the bdi which just exited, so it wakes up the forker thread. 4. but 'bdi_forker_thread()' executes 'set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)' and goes sleep. We lose a wake-up. Losing the wake-up is not fatal, but this means that the bdi work processing will be delayed by up to 5 sec. This race is theoretical, I never hit it, but it is worth fixing. The fix is to execute 'set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)' _before_ walking 'bdi_list', not after. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- mm/backing-dev.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/backing-dev.c') diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index 327e36d1d623..b1dc2d4b9cdd 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -342,6 +342,7 @@ static int bdi_forker_thread(void *ptr) wb_do_writeback(me, 0); spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock); + set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); /* * Check if any existing bdi's have dirty data without @@ -357,8 +358,6 @@ static int bdi_forker_thread(void *ptr) bdi_add_default_flusher_thread(bdi); } - set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); - if (list_empty(&bdi_pending_list)) { unsigned long wait; -- cgit v1.2.3