On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 02:41:22PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 08:27:32PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > - wbc.wb_start = jiffies; /* livelock avoidance */ > > + oldest_jif = jiffies; > > + wbc.older_than_this = &oldest_jif; > > Can't you kill the oldest_jif variable now? Err, -ENOCOFFEE. You could only kill it if you implement Jan's suggestion of not making older_than_this a pointer.. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html