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| author | Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> | 2009-04-06 18:42:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Christoph Hellwig <hch@brick.lst.de> | 2009-04-06 18:42:11 +0200 |
| commit | c626d174cfe38e7f0545d074c299527892cd8c45 (patch) | |
| tree | 8f7dfa34a77bc415d9dc604d79fbae98ffe47a14 /fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c | |
| parent | 705db3fd4660174a27418bbcb874d209a76044eb (diff) | |
xfs: prevent unwritten extent conversion from blocking I/O completion
Unwritten extent conversion can recurse back into the filesystem due
to memory allocation. Memory reclaim requires I/O completions to be
processed to allow the callers to make progress. If the I/O
completion workqueue thread is doing the recursion, then we have a
deadlock situation.
Move unwritten extent completion into it's own workqueue so it
doesn't block I/O completions for normal delayed allocation or
overwrite data.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c index aa1016bb9134..e28800a9f2b5 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ static struct shrinker xfs_buf_shake = { static struct workqueue_struct *xfslogd_workqueue; struct workqueue_struct *xfsdatad_workqueue; +struct workqueue_struct *xfsconvertd_workqueue; #ifdef XFS_BUF_TRACE void @@ -1775,6 +1776,7 @@ xfs_flush_buftarg( xfs_buf_t *bp, *n; int pincount = 0; + xfs_buf_runall_queues(xfsconvertd_workqueue); xfs_buf_runall_queues(xfsdatad_workqueue); xfs_buf_runall_queues(xfslogd_workqueue); @@ -1831,9 +1833,15 @@ xfs_buf_init(void) if (!xfsdatad_workqueue) goto out_destroy_xfslogd_workqueue; + xfsconvertd_workqueue = create_workqueue("xfsconvertd"); + if (!xfsconvertd_workqueue) + goto out_destroy_xfsdatad_workqueue; + register_shrinker(&xfs_buf_shake); return 0; + out_destroy_xfsdatad_workqueue: + destroy_workqueue(xfsdatad_workqueue); out_destroy_xfslogd_workqueue: destroy_workqueue(xfslogd_workqueue); out_free_buf_zone: @@ -1849,6 +1857,7 @@ void xfs_buf_terminate(void) { unregister_shrinker(&xfs_buf_shake); + destroy_workqueue(xfsconvertd_workqueue); destroy_workqueue(xfsdatad_workqueue); destroy_workqueue(xfslogd_workqueue); kmem_zone_destroy(xfs_buf_zone); |