1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index a4ca162666c5..5e00f1772c20 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -567,6 +567,7 @@ static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages)
                         global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) < background_thresh
                                 && min_pages <= 0)
                         break;
+                wbc.more_io = 0;
                 wbc.encountered_congestion = 0;
                 wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
                 wbc.pages_skipped = 0;
@@ -574,8 +575,9 @@ static void background_writeout(unsigned long _min_pages)
                 min_pages -= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write;
                 if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0 || wbc.pages_skipped > 0) {
                         /* Wrote less than expected */
-                        congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
-                        if (!wbc.encountered_congestion)
+                        if (wbc.encountered_congestion || wbc.more_io)
+                                congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
+                        else
                                 break;
                 }
         }
@@ -640,11 +642,12 @@ static void wb_kupdate(unsigned long arg)
                         global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
                         (inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused);
         while (nr_to_write > 0) {
+                wbc.more_io = 0;
                 wbc.encountered_congestion = 0;
                 wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
                 writeback_inodes(&wbc);
                 if (wbc.nr_to_write > 0) {
-                        if (wbc.encountered_congestion)
+                        if (wbc.encountered_congestion || wbc.more_io)
                                 congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
                         else
                                 break;  /* All the old data is written */