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-rw-r--r--drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c b/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
index 234fdcfbdf0..6c98cf04271 100644
--- a/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
@@ -1912,6 +1912,15 @@ static struct request *get_request(request_queue_t *q, int rw, struct bio *bio,
}
get_rq:
+ /*
+ * Only allow batching queuers to allocate up to 50% over the defined
+ * limit of requests, otherwise we could have thousands of requests
+ * allocated with any setting of ->nr_requests
+ */
+ if (rl->count[rw] >= (3 * q->nr_requests / 2)) {
+ spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
+ goto out;
+ }
rl->count[rw]++;
rl->starved[rw] = 0;
if (rl->count[rw] >= queue_congestion_on_threshold(q))