fs: Fix busyloop in wb_writeback()

If all inodes are under writeback (e.g. in case when there's only one inode
with dirty pages), wb_writeback() with WB_SYNC_NONE work basically degrades
to busylooping until I_SYNC flags of the inode is cleared. Fix the problem by
waiting on I_SYNC flags of an inode on b_more_io list in case we failed to
write anything.

Tested-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 8e1e5e19d21..c59d6737036 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -706,6 +706,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
 	};
 	unsigned long oldest_jif;
 	long wrote = 0;
+	struct inode *inode;
 
 	if (wbc.for_kupdate) {
 		wbc.older_than_this = &oldest_jif;
@@ -747,8 +748,24 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
 		 * If we ran out of stuff to write, bail unless more_io got set
 		 */
 		if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0 || wbc.pages_skipped > 0) {
-			if (wbc.more_io && !wbc.for_kupdate)
+			if (wbc.more_io && !wbc.for_kupdate) {
+				if (wbc.nr_to_write < MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES)
+					continue;
+				/*
+				 * Nothing written. Wait for some inode to
+				 * become available for writeback. Otherwise
+				 * we'll just busyloop.
+				 */
+				spin_lock(&inode_lock);
+				if (!list_empty(&wb->b_more_io))  {
+					inode = list_entry(
+							wb->b_more_io.prev,
+							struct inode, i_list);
+					inode_wait_for_writeback(inode);
+				}
+				spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
 				continue;
+			}
 			break;
 		}
 	}