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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/page-io.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/page-io.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c index 78839af7ce29..92f38ee13f8a 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c +++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c @@ -142,7 +142,23 @@ static void ext4_end_io_work(struct work_struct *work) unsigned long flags; int ret; - mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); + if (!mutex_trylock(&inode->i_mutex)) { + /* + * Requeue the work instead of waiting so that the work + * items queued after this can be processed. + */ + queue_work(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->dio_unwritten_wq, &io->work); + /* + * To prevent the ext4-dio-unwritten thread from keeping + * requeueing end_io requests and occupying cpu for too long, + * yield the cpu if it sees an end_io request that has already + * been requeued. + */ + if (io->flag & EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED) + yield(); + io->flag |= EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED; + return; + } ret = ext4_end_io_nolock(io); if (ret < 0) { mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); |