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authorMike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>2012-07-11 22:05:20 +0000
committerAnders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>2015-05-15 00:33:54 +0200
commit0a3a6307792bc3905c7e1c7910977ee2e9fc22a9 (patch)
tree5c8d50dc65c28a19bd97220f5c30376f4a525f4c /fs
parentc13a57713c3675309417e9f427eed70a811413cd (diff)
fs, jbd: pull your plug when waiting for space
With an -rt kernel, and a heavy sync IO load, tasks can jam up on journal locks without unplugging, which can lead to terminal IO starvation. Unplug and schedule when waiting for space. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341812414.7370.73.camel@marge.simpson.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/jbd/checkpoint.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jbd/checkpoint.c b/fs/jbd/checkpoint.c
index 08c03044abdd..95debd71e5fa 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/checkpoint.c
@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ void __log_wait_for_space(journal_t *journal)
if (journal->j_flags & JFS_ABORT)
return;
spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+ if (current->plug)
+ io_schedule();
mutex_lock(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex);
/*