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Xiubo Li 7d41870d65 ceph: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging
While the mapped IOs continue if we try to flush a file's buffer
we can see that the fsync() won't complete until the IOs finish.

This is analogous to Jan Kara's commit (f446daaea9 mm: implement
writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging), we will try to
avoid livelocks of writeback when some steadily creates dirty pages
in a mapping we are writing out.

Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
2023-04-30 12:37:28 +02:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.