[PATCH] fs: don't softlockup when evicting inodes

[PATCH] fs: don't softlockup when evicting inodes

[Josef Bacik]

If I run an fs_mark job that creates millions of empty files and then
immediately unmount the file system I will get a softlockup during unmount.
This box has ~140gb of RAM so we never hit sufficient memory pressure to evict
enough inodes during the runtime of the benchmark, which means I see around 80
million inodes being evicted at unmount time.  With this patch my box no longer
softlocks up.  Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
---
 fs/inode.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index ad60555..1a60ed1 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -581,6 +581,7 @@ static void dispose_list(struct list_head *head)
 		list_del_init(&inode->i_lru);
 
 		evict(inode);
+		cond_resched();
 	}
 }
 
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