[PATCH 02/27] xfs: re-enable non-blocking behaviour in xfs_map_blocks
Alex Elder
aelder at sgi.com
Tue Jul 5 17:35:19 CDT 2011
On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 05:43 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The non-blockig behaviour in xfs_map_blocks currently is conditional on
> having both the WB_SYNC_NONE sync_mode and the nonblocking flag set.
> The latter used to be used by both pdflush, kswapd and a few other places
> in older kernels, but has been fading out starting with the introduction
> of the per-bdi flusher threads.
>
> Enable the non-blocking behaviour for all WB_SYNC_NONE calls to get back
> the behaviour we want.
The subject line should refer to xfs_vm_writepage()
(not xfs_map_blocks()). Unless I hear otherwise I
will plan to change that for you.
Other than that this looks OK to me.
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder at sgi.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
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