[patch 17/27] Use __GFP_HIGH in mpage_writepages()

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In mpage_writepage(), use __GFP_HIGH when allocating the BIO: writeback
is a memory reclaim function and is entitle to dip into the page
reserves to get its IO underway.

 mpage.c | 2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 2.5.24/fs/mpage.c~mpage_writepage-tryharder Thu Jul 4 16:17:26 2002
+++ 2.5.24-akpm/fs/mpage.c Thu Jul 4 16:22:08 2002
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ page_is_mapped:
                 unsigned nr_bvecs = MPAGE_BIO_MAX_SIZE / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
 
                 bio = mpage_alloc(bdev, blocks[0] << (blkbits - 9),
- nr_bvecs, GFP_NOFS);
+ nr_bvecs, GFP_NOFS|__GFP_HIGH);
                 if (bio == NULL)
                         goto confused;
         }

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