linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/3] fix illogical behavior in balance_dirty

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Date:	Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:12:25 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dgc@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] fix illogical behavior in balance_dirty_pages()

> On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 22:55 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > This is a slightly different take on the fix for the deadlock in fuse
> > with dirty balancing.  David Chinner convinced me, that per-bdi
> > counters are too expensive, and that it's not worth trying to account
> > the number of pages under writeback, as they will be limited by the
> > queue anyway.
> > 
> 
> Please have a look at this:
>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/19/220



> +			if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK) <=
> +			     	bdi_thresh)
> +				break;
> 

Yes, this will resolve the deadlock as well, where balance_dirty_pages()
is currently looping forever with:

  bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK) == 0

Thanks,
Miklos
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