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fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.

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fs_excl is a poor man's priority inheritance for filesystems to hint to
the block layer that an operation is important. It was never clearly
specified, not widely adopted, and will not prevent starvation in many
cases (like across cgroups).

fs_excl was introduced with the time sliced CFQ IO scheduler, to
indicate when a process held FS exclusive resources and thus needed
a boost.

It doesn't cover all file systems, and it was never fully complete.
Lets kill it.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Justin TerAvest
2011-07-12 08:31:45 +02:00
committed by Jens Axboe
parent a07405b780
commit 4aede84b33
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@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ extern struct cred init_cred;
.alloc_lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(tsk.alloc_lock), \
.journal_info = NULL, \
.cpu_timers = INIT_CPU_TIMERS(tsk.cpu_timers), \
.fs_excl = ATOMIC_INIT(0), \
.pi_lock = __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(tsk.pi_lock), \
.timer_slack_ns = 50000, /* 50 usec default slack */ \
.pids = { \