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authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2010-12-21 17:24:21 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-12-22 19:43:33 -0800
commitd153ba64450b9371158c6516d6cac120faace44c (patch)
tree78bb90ade76b84312e1e332a02021eb8eb1cda42 /mm
parentf06328d7721ad3852c45eb2a10a0c8f9439b5f33 (diff)
writeback: do uninterruptible sleep in balance_dirty_pages()
Using TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE in balance_dirty_pages() seems wrong. If it's going to do that then it must break out if signal_pending(), otherwise it's pretty much guaranteed to degenerate into a busywait loop. Plus we *do* want these processes to appear in D state and to contribute to load average. So it should be TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. -- Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index b840afa8976..b4edfe7ce06 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
break; /* We've done our duty */
}
trace_wbc_balance_dirty_wait(&wbc, bdi);
- __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+ __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
io_schedule_timeout(pause);
/*