[6/6] XFS: remove congestion_wait() loop from xfs_buf_alloc_pages()

Commit Message

NeilBrown Sept. 17, 2021, 2:56 a.m. UTC

Documentation commment in gfp.h discourages indefinite retry loops on
ENOMEM and says of __GFP_NOFAIL that it

    is definitely preferable to use the flag rather than opencode
    endless loop around allocator.

congestion_wait() is indistinguishable from
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() in practice and it is not a good way
to wait for memory to become available.

So add __GFP_NOFAIL to gfp if failure is not an option, and remove the
congestion_wait().  We now only loop when failure is an option, and
alloc_bulk_pages_array() made some progres, but not enough.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <[e-mail]>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c |   14 ++++++--------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
index 5fa6cd947dd4..b19ab52c551b 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@  xfs_buf_alloc_pages(
 	if (flags & XBF_READ_AHEAD)
 		gfp_mask |= __GFP_NORETRY;
 	else
-		gfp_mask |= GFP_NOFS;
+		gfp_mask |= GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOFAIL;
 
 	/* Make sure that we have a page list */
 	bp->b_page_count = DIV_ROUND_UP(BBTOB(bp->b_length), PAGE_SIZE);
@@ -372,8 +372,9 @@  xfs_buf_alloc_pages(
 
 	/*
 	 * Bulk filling of pages can take multiple calls. Not filling the entire
-	 * array is not an allocation failure, so don't back off if we get at
-	 * least one extra page.
+	 * array is not an allocation failure but is worth counting in
+	 * xb_pages_retries statistics.  If we don't even get one page,
+	 * then this must be a READ_AHEAD and we should abort.
 	 */
 	for (;;) {
 		long	last = filled;
@@ -385,16 +386,13 @@  xfs_buf_alloc_pages(
 			break;
 		}
 
-		if (filled != last)
-			continue;
-
-		if (flags & XBF_READ_AHEAD) {
+		if (filled == last) {
+			ASSERT(flags & XBF_READ_AHEAD);
 			xfs_buf_free_pages(bp);
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		}
 
 		XFS_STATS_INC(bp->b_mount, xb_page_retries);
-		congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ / 50);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }