From aa182e64f16fc29a4984c2d79191b161888bbd9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Chinner Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 07:08:10 +1000 Subject: Revert "xfs: block allocation work needs to be kswapd aware" This reverts commit 1f6d64829db78a7e1d63e15c9f48f0a5d2b5a679. This commit resulted in regressions in performance in low memory situations where kswapd was doing writeback of delayed allocation blocks. It resulted in significant parallelism of the kswapd work and with the special kswapd flags meant that hundreds of active allocation could dip into kswapd specific memory reserves and avoid being throttled. This cause a large amount of performance variation, as well as random OOM-killer invocations that didn't previously exist. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Brian Foster Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner --- fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c | 16 +++------------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c') diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c index 703b3ec1796..057f671811d 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c @@ -258,23 +258,14 @@ xfs_bmapi_allocate_worker( struct xfs_bmalloca *args = container_of(work, struct xfs_bmalloca, work); unsigned long pflags; - unsigned long new_pflags = PF_FSTRANS; - /* - * we are in a transaction context here, but may also be doing work - * in kswapd context, and hence we may need to inherit that state - * temporarily to ensure that we don't block waiting for memory reclaim - * in any way. - */ - if (args->kswapd) - new_pflags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD; - - current_set_flags_nested(&pflags, new_pflags); + /* we are in a transaction context here */ + current_set_flags_nested(&pflags, PF_FSTRANS); args->result = __xfs_bmapi_allocate(args); complete(args->done); - current_restore_flags_nested(&pflags, new_pflags); + current_restore_flags_nested(&pflags, PF_FSTRANS); } /* @@ -293,7 +284,6 @@ xfs_bmapi_allocate( args->done = &done; - args->kswapd = current_is_kswapd(); INIT_WORK_ONSTACK(&args->work, xfs_bmapi_allocate_worker); queue_work(xfs_alloc_wq, &args->work); wait_for_completion(&done); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2