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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c index 089eaca860b..34640d6dbdc 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c @@ -1333,6 +1333,21 @@ xfs_vm_writepage( trace_xfs_writepage(inode, page, 0); /* + * Refuse to write the page out if we are called from reclaim context. + * + * This is primarily to avoid stack overflows when called from deep + * used stacks in random callers for direct reclaim, but disabling + * reclaim for kswap is a nice side-effect as kswapd causes rather + * suboptimal I/O patters, too. + * + * This should really be done by the core VM, but until that happens + * filesystems like XFS, btrfs and ext4 have to take care of this + * by themselves. + */ + if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) + goto out_fail; + + /* * We need a transaction if: * 1. There are delalloc buffers on the page * 2. The page is uptodate and we have unmapped buffers @@ -1366,14 +1381,6 @@ xfs_vm_writepage( if (!page_has_buffers(page)) create_empty_buffers(page, 1 << inode->i_blkbits, 0); - - /* - * VM calculation for nr_to_write seems off. Bump it way - * up, this gets simple streaming writes zippy again. - * To be reviewed again after Jens' writeback changes. - */ - wbc->nr_to_write *= 4; - /* * Convert delayed allocate, unwritten or unmapped space * to real space and flush out to disk. |