[PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control

The current NFS client congestion logic is severly broken, it marks the
backing device congested during each nfs_writepages() call but doesn't
mirror this in nfs_writepage() which makes for deadlocks.  Also it
implements its own waitqueue.

Replace this by a more regular congestion implementation that puts a cap on
the number of active writeback pages and uses the bdi congestion waitqueue.

Also always use an interruptible wait since it makes sense to be able to
SIGKILL the process even for mounts without 'intr'.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
index 7011d6255593..f2542c24b328 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ static inline int bdi_rw_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
 void clear_bdi_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int rw);
 void set_bdi_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int rw);
 long congestion_wait(int rw, long timeout);
+long congestion_wait_interruptible(int rw, long timeout);
 void congestion_end(int rw);
 
 #define bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(bdi) \