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authorArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2010-07-25 14:29:13 +0300
committerJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2010-08-07 18:53:55 +0200
commitc5f7ad233b8805dae06e694538d8095b19f3c560 (patch)
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writeback: do not lose wake-ups in the forker thread - 1
Currently the forker thread can lose wake-ups which may lead to unnecessary delays in processing bdi works. E.g., consider the following scenario. 1. 'bdi_forker_thread()' walks the 'bdi_list', finds out there is nothing to do, and is about to finish the loop. 2. A bdi thread decides to exit because it was inactive for long time. 3. 'bdi_queue_work()' adds a work to the bdi which just exited, so it wakes up the forker thread. 4. but 'bdi_forker_thread()' executes 'set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)' and goes sleep. We lose a wake-up. Losing the wake-up is not fatal, but this means that the bdi work processing will be delayed by up to 5 sec. This race is theoretical, I never hit it, but it is worth fixing. The fix is to execute 'set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)' _before_ walking 'bdi_list', not after. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/backing-dev.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 327e36d1d623..b1dc2d4b9cdd 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -342,6 +342,7 @@ static int bdi_forker_thread(void *ptr)
wb_do_writeback(me, 0);
spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock);
+ set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
/*
* Check if any existing bdi's have dirty data without
@@ -357,8 +358,6 @@ static int bdi_forker_thread(void *ptr)
bdi_add_default_flusher_thread(bdi);
}
- set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
-
if (list_empty(&bdi_pending_list)) {
unsigned long wait;