Re: [PATCH 02/17] xfs: skip writeback from reclaim context

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Re: [PATCH 02/17] xfs: skip writeback from reclaim context

To:	Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [PATCH 02/17] xfs: skip writeback from reclaim context
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Wed, 2 Jun 2010 06:08:12 -0400
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to:	<20100602043957.GB7011@dastard>
References:	<20100531160727.842750532@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20100531160859.184576507@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20100602043957.GB7011@dastard>
User-agent:	Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05)

On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 02:39:57PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Also worth thinking about is if should be checked in
> xfs_vm_releasepage() as well to avoid the same stack issues if it
> triggers allocation...

I agree this is a potential problem as well.

I did some QA runs with this thrown in, and it causes massive OOM killer
wreckage in xfstests.  I've also cross-checked btrfs and ext4 and
neither one skips ->releasepage from reclaim context.

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