[PATCH 03/12] buffer: eliminate the need to call free_more_memory() in __getblk_slow()

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Sep 27 2017 - 16:14:31 EST


Since the previous commit removed any case where grow_buffers()
would return failure due to memory allocations, we can safely
remove the case where we have to call free_more_memory() in
this function.

Since this is also the last user of free_more_memory(), kill
it off completely.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/buffer.c | 23 -----------------------
1 file changed, 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 3b60cd8456db..bff571dc7bc3 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -253,27 +253,6 @@ __find_get_block_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block)
}

/*
- * Kick the writeback threads then try to free up some ZONE_NORMAL memory.
- */
-static void free_more_memory(void)
-{
- struct zoneref *z;
- int nid;
-
- wakeup_flusher_threads(1024, WB_REASON_FREE_MORE_MEM);
- yield();
-
- for_each_online_node(nid) {
-
- z = first_zones_zonelist(node_zonelist(nid, GFP_NOFS),
- gfp_zone(GFP_NOFS), NULL);
- if (z->zone)
- try_to_free_pages(node_zonelist(nid, GFP_NOFS), 0,
- GFP_NOFS, NULL);
- }
-}
-
-/*
* I/O completion handler for block_read_full_page() - pages
* which come unlocked at the end of I/O.
*/
@@ -1086,8 +1065,6 @@ __getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
ret = grow_buffers(bdev, block, size, gfp);
if (ret < 0)
return NULL;
- if (ret == 0)
- free_more_memory();
}
}

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