From: Vitaly Fertman <vitaly.fertman@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:07:45 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: b=24320 do not fork a new thread in mem pressure
X-Git-Tag: 2.0.59-llnl-base~12
X-Git-Url: https://git.whamcloud.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=386e9768ee923fa926f106920fab245418eb7ca6;p=fs%2Flustre-release.git

b=24320 do not fork a new thread in mem pressure

i=johann
i=green

we already check for PF_MEMALLOC in ldlm shrinker and pass this flag
to the blocking thread, but a new thread start was still done with
no check for this flag.
---

diff --git a/lustre/ldlm/ldlm_lockd.c b/lustre/ldlm/ldlm_lockd.c
index b750b1c..f5fc1f8 100644
--- a/lustre/ldlm/ldlm_lockd.c
+++ b/lustre/ldlm/ldlm_lockd.c
@@ -2218,7 +2218,8 @@ static int ldlm_bl_thread_main(void *arg)
 
                         /* Not fatal if racy and have a few too many threads */
                         if (unlikely(busy < blp->blp_max_threads &&
-                            busy >= cfs_atomic_read(&blp->blp_num_threads)))
+                            busy >= cfs_atomic_read(&blp->blp_num_threads) &&
+                            !blwi->blwi_mem_pressure))
                                 /* discard the return value, we tried */
                                 ldlm_bl_thread_start(blp);
                 } else {