aio: only account I/O wait time in read_events if there are active requests
authorJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Wed, 5 Dec 2007 07:45:02 +0000 (23:45 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 5 Dec 2007 17:21:18 +0000 (09:21 -0800)
On 2.6.24, top started showing 100% iowait on one CPU when a UML instance was
running (but completely idle).  The UML code sits in io_getevents waiting for
an event to be submitted and completed.

Fix this by checking ctx->reqs_active before scheduling to determine whether
or not we are waiting for I/O.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/aio.c

index f12db415c0f6aa7b2776bdbcec1279a35c17da7f..9dec7d2d546e0e12e200898993f1b272111f5cee 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -1161,7 +1161,12 @@ retry:
                        ret = 0;
                        if (to.timed_out)       /* Only check after read evt */
                                break;
-                       io_schedule();
+                       /* Try to only show up in io wait if there are ops
+                        *  in flight */
+                       if (ctx->reqs_active)
+                               io_schedule();
+                       else
+                               schedule();
                        if (signal_pending(tsk)) {
                                ret = -EINTR;
                                break;