NFS: Kill NFS_INO_NFS_INO_FLUSHING: it is a performance killer

filemap_datawrite() and friends already deal just fine with livelock.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>

fs/nfs/file.c

@@ -359,14 +359,6 @@ static int nfs_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
 		file, mapping->host->i_ino, len, (long long) pos);
 
 start:
-	/*
-	 * Prevent starvation issues if someone is doing a consistency
-	 * sync-to-disk
-	 */
-	ret = wait_on_bit_action(&NFS_I(mapping->host)->flags, NFS_INO_FLUSHING,
-				 nfs_wait_bit_killable, TASK_KILLABLE);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
 	/*
 	 * Wait for O_DIRECT to complete
 	 */

fs/nfs/nfstrace.h

@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
 			{ 1 << NFS_INO_ADVISE_RDPLUS, "ADVISE_RDPLUS" }, \
 			{ 1 << NFS_INO_STALE, "STALE" }, \
 			{ 1 << NFS_INO_INVALIDATING, "INVALIDATING" }, \
-			{ 1 << NFS_INO_FLUSHING, "FLUSHING" }, \
 			{ 1 << NFS_INO_FSCACHE, "FSCACHE" }, \
 			{ 1 << NFS_INO_LAYOUTCOMMIT, "NEED_LAYOUTCOMMIT" }, \
 			{ 1 << NFS_INO_LAYOUTCOMMITTING, "LAYOUTCOMMIT" })

fs/nfs/write.c

@@ -657,16 +657,9 @@ static int nfs_writepages_callback(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *
 int nfs_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
-	unsigned long *bitlock = &NFS_I(inode)->flags;
 	struct nfs_pageio_descriptor pgio;
 	int err;
 
-	/* Stop dirtying of new pages while we sync */
-	err = wait_on_bit_lock_action(bitlock, NFS_INO_FLUSHING,
-			nfs_wait_bit_killable, TASK_KILLABLE);
-	if (err)
-		goto out_err;
-
 	nfs_inc_stats(inode, NFSIOS_VFSWRITEPAGES);
 
 	nfs_pageio_init_write(&pgio, inode, wb_priority(wbc), false,
@@ -674,10 +667,6 @@ int nfs_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 	err = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, nfs_writepages_callback, &pgio);
 	nfs_pageio_complete(&pgio);
 
-	clear_bit_unlock(NFS_INO_FLUSHING, bitlock);
-	smp_mb__after_atomic();
-	wake_up_bit(bitlock, NFS_INO_FLUSHING);
-
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto out_err;
 	err = pgio.pg_error;

include/linux/nfs_fs.h

@@ -205,7 +205,6 @@ struct nfs_inode {
 #define NFS_INO_STALE		(1)		/* possible stale inode */
 #define NFS_INO_ACL_LRU_SET	(2)		/* Inode is on the LRU list */
 #define NFS_INO_INVALIDATING	(3)		/* inode is being invalidated */
-#define NFS_INO_FLUSHING	(4)		/* inode is flushing out data */
 #define NFS_INO_FSCACHE		(5)		/* inode can be cached by FS-Cache */
 #define NFS_INO_FSCACHE_LOCK	(6)		/* FS-Cache cookie management lock */
 #define NFS_INO_LAYOUTCOMMIT	(9)		/* layoutcommit required */