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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 05/22] balance dirty pages from loop device
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:14:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070227231556.920277549@szeredi.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070227231442.627972152@szeredi.hu
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From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
The function do_lo_send_aops() should call
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() after each page similarly to
generic_file_buffered_write().
Without this, writing the loop device directly (not through a
filesystem) is very slow, and also slows the whole system down,
because nr_dirty is constantly over the limit.
Beware: this patch without the fix to balance_dirty_pages() makes a
loopback mounted filesystem prone to deadlock.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
---
Index: linux/drivers/block/loop.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/block/loop.c 2007-02-27 14:40:55.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/drivers/block/loop.c 2007-02-27 14:41:08.000000000 +0100
@@ -275,6 +275,8 @@ static int do_lo_send_aops(struct loop_d
pos += size;
unlock_page(page);
page_cache_release(page);
+ balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
+ cond_resched();
}
ret = 0;
out:
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-27 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-27 23:14 [patch 00/22] misc VFS/VM patches and fuse writable shared mapping support Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:14 ` [patch 01/22] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-28 14:16 ` Peter Staubach
2007-02-28 17:06 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-28 17:21 ` Peter Staubach
2007-02-28 17:51 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-28 20:01 ` Peter Staubach
2007-02-28 20:35 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-28 20:58 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-28 21:09 ` Peter Staubach
2007-03-01 7:25 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:14 ` [patch 02/22] fix quadratic behavior of shrink_dcache_parent() Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:14 ` [patch 03/22] fix deadlock in balance_dirty_pages Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:14 ` [patch 04/22] fix deadlock in throttle_vm_writeout Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:14 ` Miklos Szeredi [this message]
2007-02-27 23:14 ` [patch 06/22] consolidate generic_writepages and mpage_writepages Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:14 ` [patch 07/22] add filesystem subtype support Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:14 ` [patch 08/22] fuse: update backing_dev_info congestion state Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:14 ` [patch 09/22] fuse: fix reserved request wake up Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:14 ` [patch 10/22] fuse: add reference counting to fuse_file Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:14 ` [patch 11/22] fuse: add truncation semaphore Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:14 ` [patch 12/22] fuse: fix page invalidation Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:14 ` [patch 13/22] fuse: add list of writable files to fuse_inode Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:14 ` [patch 14/22] fuse: add helper for asynchronous writes Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:14 ` [patch 15/22] add non-owner variant of down_read_trylock() Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:14 ` [patch 16/22] fuse: add fuse_writepage() function Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:14 ` [patch 17/22] fuse: writable shared mmap support Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:15 ` [patch 18/22] fuse: add fuse_writepages() function Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:15 ` [patch 19/22] export sync_sb() to modules Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:15 ` [patch 20/22] fuse: make dirty stats available Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:15 ` [patch 21/22] fuse: limit dirty pages Miklos Szeredi
2007-02-27 23:15 ` [patch 22/22] fuse: allow big write requests Miklos Szeredi
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