congestion_wait() in this context is just a sleep - block devices do not support congestion signalling any more. The goal for this wait, which was introduced in Commit ae78bf9c4f5f ("[PATCH] add -o flush for fat") is to wait for any recently written data to get to storage. We currently have no direct mechanism to do this, so a simple wait that behaves identically to the current congestion_wait() is the best we can do. This is a step towards removing congestion_wait() Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> --- Hi Andrew, I believe you are an appropriate conduit for fs/fat patches once that have been suitably acked. Thanks NeilBrown fs/fat/file.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fat/file.c b/fs/fat/file.c index 13855ba49cd9..a5a309fcc7fa 100644 --- a/fs/fat/file.c +++ b/fs/fat/file.c @@ -175,9 +175,10 @@ long fat_generic_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) static int fat_file_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) { if ((filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) && - MSDOS_SB(inode->i_sb)->options.flush) { + MSDOS_SB(inode->i_sb)->options.flush) { fat_flush_inodes(inode->i_sb, inode, NULL); - congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10); + set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); + io_schedule_timeout(HZ/10); } return 0; } -- 2.34.1