NFS: nfsiod should not block forever in mempool_alloc()

The concern is that since nfsiod is sometimes required to kick off a
commit, it can get locked up waiting forever in mempool_alloc() instead
of failing gracefully and leaving the commit until later.

Try to allocate from the slab first, with GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY,
then fall back to a non-blocking attempt to allocate from the memory
pool.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
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Trond Myklebust
2022-03-21 12:34:19 -04:00
parent b2648015d4
commit 515dcdcd48
4 changed files with 23 additions and 18 deletions

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@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ extern int nfs_wb_all(struct inode *inode);
extern int nfs_wb_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page);
extern int nfs_wb_page_cancel(struct inode *inode, struct page* page);
extern int nfs_commit_inode(struct inode *, int);
extern struct nfs_commit_data *nfs_commitdata_alloc(bool never_fail);
extern struct nfs_commit_data *nfs_commitdata_alloc(void);
extern void nfs_commit_free(struct nfs_commit_data *data);
bool nfs_commit_end(struct nfs_mds_commit_info *cinfo);