commit 369f2389e7d03022abdd25e298bffb9613cd0e54
author Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Tue Oct 16 23:30:45 2007 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> Wed Oct 17 08:43:02 2007 -0700
tree 1071020428c8e3eaa88642682e234de95e7a77bc
parent 1c0eeaf5698597146ed9b873e2f9e0961edcf0f9

writeback: remove unnecessary wait in throttle_vm_writeout()

We don't want to introduce pointless delays in throttle_vm_writeout() when
the writeback limits are not yet exceeded, do we?

Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

mm/page-writeback.c

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index d8c21e5..7845462 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -502,16 +502,6 @@
 	long background_thresh;
 	long dirty_thresh;
 
-	if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) {
-		/*
-		 * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
-		 * or progress in the filesystem.  So we cannot just sit here
-		 * waiting for IO to complete.
-		 */
-		congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
-		return;
-	}
-
         for ( ; ; ) {
 		get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL, NULL);
 
@@ -525,6 +515,14 @@
 			global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
                         	break;
                 congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
+
+		/*
+		 * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
+		 * or progress in the filesystem.  So we cannot just sit here
+		 * waiting for IO to complete.
+		 */
+		if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO))
+			break;
         }
 }