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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c index 6ce5c76d642b..e9fbcafaccdc 100644 --- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c +++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c @@ -357,8 +357,19 @@ int drbd_al_begin_io_nonblock(struct drbd_device *device, struct drbd_interval * /* We want all necessary updates for a given request within the same transaction * We could first check how many updates are *actually* needed, * and use that instead of the worst-case nr_al_extents */ - if (available_update_slots < nr_al_extents) - return -EWOULDBLOCK; + if (available_update_slots < nr_al_extents) { + /* Too many activity log extents are currently "hot". + * + * If we have accumulated pending changes already, + * we made progress. + * + * If we cannot get even a single pending change through, + * stop the fast path until we made some progress, + * or requests to "cold" extents could be starved. */ + if (!al->pending_changes) + __set_bit(__LC_STARVING, &device->act_log->flags); + return -ENOBUFS; + } /* Is resync active in this area? */ for (enr = first; enr <= last; enr++) { |