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    gfs2: low-memory forced flush fixes · b74cd55a
    Andreas Gruenbacher authored
    First, function gfs2_ail_flush_reqd checks the SDF_FORCE_AIL_FLUSH flag
    to determine if an AIL flush should be forced in low-memory situations.
    However, it also immediately clears the flag, and when called repeatedly
    as in function gfs2_logd, the flag will be lost.  Fix that by pulling
    the SDF_FORCE_AIL_FLUSH flag check out of gfs2_ail_flush_reqd.
    
    Second, function gfs2_writepages sets the SDF_FORCE_AIL_FLUSH flag
    whether or not enough pages were written.  If enough pages could be
    written, flushing the AIL is unnecessary, though.
    
    Third, gfs2_writepages doesn't wake up logd after setting the
    SDF_FORCE_AIL_FLUSH flag, so it can take a long time for logd to react.
    It would be preferable to wake up logd, but that hurts the performance
    of some workloads and we don't quite understand why so far, so don't
    wake up logd so far.
    
    Fixes: b066a4ee ("gfs2: forcibly flush ail to relieve memory pressure")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
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