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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fs-writeback.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 8e1e5e1..c59d673 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; } } |
