Andrew Morton writes:
[...]
>
> The way this code all works is pretty crude and simple: a process comes
> in to to some writeback and it enters a polling loop:
>
> while (we need to do writeback) {
> for (each superblock) {
> if (the superblock's backing_dev isn't congested) {
> stuff some more IO down it()
> }
> }
> take_a_nap();
> }
>
> so the process remains captured in that polling loop until the
> dirty-memory-exceed condition subsides. The reason why we avoid
Hm... wbc->nr_to_write is checked all the way down
(balance_dirty_pages(), writeback_inodes(), sync_sb_inodes(),
mpage_writepages()), so "occasional writer" cannot be stuck for more
than 32 + 16 pages, it seems.
Nikita.
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