On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 07:44:28PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > What's that bdi 7:0? /dev/loop0 > And sb_dev=0:0 that we didn't have sb specified in thhis wb_work > , nr_pages=9223372036854775807=0x7fffffffffffffff. LONG_MAX. It all fits perfectly: static long wb_check_background_flush(struct bdi_writeback *wb) { if (over_bground_thresh()) { struct wb_writeback_work work = { .nr_pages = LONG_MAX, .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE, .for_background = 1, .range_cyclic = 1, }; return wb_writeback(wb, &work); } return 0; } -- 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