Re: [PATCH] writeback: remove unnecessary wait in throttle_vm_writeout()

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:16:10AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:50:16 +0800
> Fengguang Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > We don't want to introduce pointless delays in throttle_vm_writeout()
> > when the writeback limits are not yet exceeded, do we?
> 
> Good catch.

Thank you.
 
> > Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>

It could be a good fix for 2.6.22/23.  But for -mm, I'm not
sure if throttle_vm_writeout() will be eventually removed ;-)

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