writeback: remove unnecessary wait in throttle_vm_writeout()

[safe/jmp/linux-2.6] / mm / page-writeback.c

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index d8c21e5..7845462 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -502,16 +502,6 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
        long background_thresh;
        long dirty_thresh;
 
-       if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) {
-               /*
-                * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
-                * or progress in the filesystem.  So we cannot just sit here
-                * waiting for IO to complete.
-                */
-               congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
-               return;
-       }
-
         for ( ; ; ) {
                get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL, NULL);
 
@@ -525,6 +515,14 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
                        global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
                                break;
                 congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
+
+               /*
+                * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
+                * or progress in the filesystem.  So we cannot just sit here
+                * waiting for IO to complete.
+                */
+               if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO))
+                       break;
         }
 }