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Subject[PATCH 02/12] writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks (write_cache_pages)
No one is calling wb_writeback and write_cache_pages with
wbc.nonblocking=1 any more. And lumpy pageout will want to do
nonblocking writeback without the congestion wait.

CC: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
---
mm/page-writeback.c | 12 ------------
1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)

--- linux.orig/mm/page-writeback.c 2009-11-18 16:25:49.000000000 +0800
+++ linux/mm/page-writeback.c 2009-11-18 16:25:53.000000000 +0800
@@ -828,7 +828,6 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_spa
struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
void *data)
{
- struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
int ret = 0;
int done = 0;
struct pagevec pvec;
@@ -841,11 +840,6 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_spa
int range_whole = 0;
long nr_to_write = wbc->nr_to_write;

- if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
- wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
- return 0;
- }
-
pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
writeback_index = mapping->writeback_index; /* prev offset */
@@ -964,12 +958,6 @@ continue_unlock:
break;
}
}
-
- if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
- wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
- done = 1;
- break;
- }
}
pagevec_release(&pvec);
cond_resched();



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