4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.mykleb...@primarydata.com>
commit 7f1bda447c9bd48b415acedba6b830f61591601f upstream.
The commit list can get very large, and so we need a cond_resched()
in nfs_commit_release_pages() in order to ensure we don't hog the CPU
for excessive periods of time.
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efa...@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.mykleb...@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/nfs/write.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -1806,6 +1806,8 @@ static void nfs_commit_release_pages(str
set_bit(NFS_CONTEXT_RESEND_WRITES, &req->wb_context->flags);
next:
nfs_unlock_and_release_request(req);
+ /* Latency breaker */
+ cond_resched();
}
nfss = NFS_SERVER(data->inode);
if (atomic_long_read(&nfss->writeback) < NFS_CONGESTION_OFF_THRESH)
