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writeback: simplify and split bdi_start_writeback

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bdi_start_writeback now never gets a superblock passed, so we can just remove
that case.  And to further untangle the code and flatten the call stack
split it into two trivial helpers for it's two callers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-08 18:15:15 +02:00
committed by Jens Axboe
parent b8c2f3474f
commit c5444198ca
3 changed files with 24 additions and 17 deletions
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@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
(!laptop_mode && ((global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY)
+ global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS))
> background_thresh)))
bdi_start_writeback(bdi, NULL, 0);
bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
}
void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite)
@@ -705,9 +705,8 @@ void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data)
* We want to write everything out, not just down to the dirty
* threshold
*/
if (bdi_has_dirty_io(&q->backing_dev_info))
bdi_start_writeback(&q->backing_dev_info, NULL, nr_pages);
bdi_start_writeback(&q->backing_dev_info, nr_pages);
}
/*