This is on top of the parts of the previous series that have been queued up. I've posted the first patch in a reply to Jan last week, this is a more official posting. No changes, it works for me. Last patch is just a cleanup, finally killing off nr_pdflush_threads, 8 years after we deprecated it. Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-sys-vm-nr_pdflush_threads | 5 b/fs/fs-writeback.c | 71 ++++++-------- b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h | 1 b/include/trace/events/writeback.h | 1 b/kernel/sysctl.c | 5 5 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) -- Jens Axboe