Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm/vmscan: Throttle reclaim until some writeback completes if congested

[NeilBrown]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2021, Mel Gorman wrote:
> -long wait_iff_congested(int sync, long timeout)
> -{
> -	long ret;
> -	unsigned long start = jiffies;
> -	DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
> -	wait_queue_head_t *wqh = &congestion_wqh[sync];
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * If there is no congestion, yield if necessary instead
> -	 * of sleeping on the congestion queue
> -	 */
> -	if (atomic_read(&nr_wb_congested[sync]) == 0) {
> -		cond_resched();
> -
> -		/* In case we scheduled, work out time remaining */
> -		ret = timeout - (jiffies - start);
> -		if (ret < 0)
> -			ret = 0;
> -
> -		goto out;
> -	}
> -
> -	/* Sleep until uncongested or a write happens */
> -	prepare_to_wait(wqh, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);

Uninterruptible wait.

....
> +static void
> +reclaim_throttle(pg_data_t *pgdat, enum vmscan_throttle_state reason,
> +							long timeout)
> +{
> +	wait_queue_head_t *wqh = &pgdat->reclaim_wait;
> +	unsigned long start = jiffies;
> +	long ret;
> +	DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
> +
> +	atomic_inc(&pgdat->nr_reclaim_throttled);
> +	WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->nr_reclaim_start,
> +		 node_page_state(pgdat, NR_THROTTLED_WRITTEN));
> +
> +	prepare_to_wait(wqh, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);

Interruptible wait.

Why the change?  I think these waits really need to be TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE.

Thanks,
NeilBrown