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    loop: Limit the number of requests in the bio list · 7b5a3522
    Lukas Czerner authored
    
    
    Currently there is not limitation of number of requests in the loop bio
    list. This can lead into some nasty situations when the caller spawns
    tons of bio requests taking huge amount of memory. This is even more
    obvious with discard where blkdev_issue_discard() will submit all bios
    for the range and wait for them to finish afterwards. On really big loop
    devices and slow backing file system this can lead to OOM situation as
    reported by Dave Chinner.
    
    With this patch we will wait in loop_make_request() if the number of
    bios in the loop bio list would exceed 'nr_congestion_on'.
    We'll wake up the process as we process the bios form the list. Some
    threshold hysteresis is in place to avoid high frequency oscillation.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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