Miklos pointed out that the filesystems which set the bdi congestion flags do gain some value from that, and simply removing the code is not appropriate. Specifically, readahead and/or writeback are skipped when the congestion flags are set. We can mostly move this skipping into the filesystem. ->readahead can do nothing if reads are congested. ->writepage and ->wrtepages can do nothing for WB_SYNC_NONE if writes are congested. Currently only *some* WB_SYNC_NONE writes are skipped due to congestion. Those from sync_file_range() and those used for page migration are not. Also, shrink_page_list() will now cause PageActive to be set if ->writepage skips due to congestion. I don't expect these changes to be a problem, but I have no experience to base that on. Review/comments most welcome, Thanks, NeilBrown --- NeilBrown (3): fuse: remove reliance on bdi congestion nfs: remove reliance on bdi congestion ceph: remove reliance on bdi congestion fs/ceph/addr.c | 22 +++++++++++++--------- fs/ceph/super.c | 1 + fs/ceph/super.h | 1 + fs/nfs/write.c | 12 ++++++++++-- include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h | 1 + 5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) -- Signature