diff --git a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
index bc2980c..5f2f5a8 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
 /*
  * simple init on struct btrfs_workers
  */
-void btrfs_init_workers(struct btrfs_workers *workers, int max)
+void btrfs_init_workers(struct btrfs_workers *workers, char *name, int max)
 {
 	workers->num_workers = 0;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&workers->worker_list);
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@
 	spin_lock_init(&workers->lock);
 	workers->max_workers = max;
 	workers->idle_thresh = 32;
+	workers->name = name;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -184,7 +185,9 @@
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&worker->worker_list);
 		spin_lock_init(&worker->lock);
 		atomic_set(&worker->num_pending, 0);
-		worker->task = kthread_run(worker_loop, worker, "btrfs");
+		worker->task = kthread_run(worker_loop, worker,
+					   "btrfs-%s-%d", workers->name,
+					   workers->num_workers + i);
 		worker->workers = workers;
 		if (IS_ERR(worker->task)) {
 			kfree(worker);
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h
index 3436ff8..43e44d1 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h
@@ -69,11 +69,14 @@
 
 	/* lock for finding the next worker thread to queue on */
 	spinlock_t lock;
+
+	/* extra name for this worker */
+	char *name;
 };
 
 int btrfs_queue_worker(struct btrfs_workers *workers, struct btrfs_work *work);
 int btrfs_start_workers(struct btrfs_workers *workers, int num_workers);
 int btrfs_stop_workers(struct btrfs_workers *workers);
-void btrfs_init_workers(struct btrfs_workers *workers, int max);
+void btrfs_init_workers(struct btrfs_workers *workers, char *name, int max);
 int btrfs_requeue_work(struct btrfs_work *work);
 #endif
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index 9601b13..1bf210d 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -492,11 +492,11 @@
 
 	/*
 	 * when we're called for a write, we're already in the async
-	 * submission context.  Just jump ingo btrfs_map_bio
+	 * submission context.  Just jump into btrfs_map_bio
 	 */
 	if (rw & (1 << BIO_RW)) {
 		return btrfs_map_bio(BTRFS_I(inode)->root, rw, bio,
-				     mirror_num, 0);
+				     mirror_num, 1);
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -528,6 +528,12 @@
 {
 	struct extent_io_tree *tree;
 	tree = &BTRFS_I(page->mapping->host)->io_tree;
+
+	if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) {
+		redirty_page_for_writepage(wbc, page);
+		unlock_page(page);
+		return 0;
+	}
 	return extent_write_full_page(tree, page, btree_get_extent, wbc);
 }
 
@@ -1363,8 +1369,9 @@
 	 * queue work function gets called at interrupt time, and so it
 	 * cannot dynamically grow.
 	 */
-	btrfs_init_workers(&fs_info->workers, fs_info->thread_pool_size);
-	btrfs_init_workers(&fs_info->submit_workers,
+	btrfs_init_workers(&fs_info->workers, "worker",
+			   fs_info->thread_pool_size);
+	btrfs_init_workers(&fs_info->submit_workers, "submit",
 			   min_t(u64, fs_devices->num_devices,
 			   fs_info->thread_pool_size));
 
@@ -1374,9 +1381,10 @@
 	 */
 	fs_info->submit_workers.idle_thresh = 64;
 
-	btrfs_init_workers(&fs_info->fixup_workers, 1);
-	btrfs_init_workers(&fs_info->endio_workers, fs_info->thread_pool_size);
-	btrfs_init_workers(&fs_info->endio_write_workers,
+	btrfs_init_workers(&fs_info->fixup_workers, "fixup", 1);
+	btrfs_init_workers(&fs_info->endio_workers, "endio",
+			   fs_info->thread_pool_size);
+	btrfs_init_workers(&fs_info->endio_write_workers, "endio-write",
 			   fs_info->thread_pool_size);
 
 	/*