Commit 80e8ebf2 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] loop: remove the balance_dirty_pages() call

The loop thread is getting permanently stuck in balance_dirty_pages()
(nr_writeback is exceeded) because the loop thread itself is responsible for
completing writeback on behalf of higher layers.

So we need to take that out: don't throttle the loop thread.  Throttle the
tasks which are generating all the dirty data instead.
parent cefe53f8
......@@ -236,7 +236,6 @@ do_lo_send(struct loop_device *lo, struct bio_vec *bvec, int bsize, loff_t pos)
up(&mapping->host->i_sem);
out:
kunmap(bvec->bv_page);
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
return ret;
unlock:
......
......@@ -220,7 +220,6 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping)
}
put_cpu();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited);
/*
* writeback at least _min_pages, and keep writing until the amount of dirty
......
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