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authorDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>2009-04-06 12:42:11 -0400
committerChristoph Hellwig <hch@brick.lst.de>2009-04-06 12:42:11 -0400
commitc626d174cfe38e7f0545d074c299527892cd8c45 (patch)
tree8f7dfa34a77bc415d9dc604d79fbae98ffe47a14 /fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
parent705db3fd4660174a27418bbcb874d209a76044eb (diff)
xfs: prevent unwritten extent conversion from blocking I/O completion
Unwritten extent conversion can recurse back into the filesystem due to memory allocation. Memory reclaim requires I/O completions to be processed to allow the callers to make progress. If the I/O completion workqueue thread is doing the recursion, then we have a deadlock situation. Move unwritten extent completion into it's own workqueue so it doesn't block I/O completions for normal delayed allocation or overwrite data. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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