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authorDave Chinner <[email protected]>2009-04-06 18:42:11 +0200
committerChristoph Hellwig <[email protected]>2009-04-06 18:42:11 +0200
commitc626d174cfe38e7f0545d074c299527892cd8c45 (patch)
tree8f7dfa34a77bc415d9dc604d79fbae98ffe47a14 /lib/string_helpers.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 <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
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