Background flush is needed in order to satisfy the global page limits. Don't subvert by reducing the priority. This should also address a write starvation issue that was reported by Neil Brown. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/write.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c index 7b9316406930..7a4fe7d82e65 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/write.c +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c @@ -247,8 +247,6 @@ static int wb_priority(struct writeback_control *wbc) return FLUSH_HIGHPRI | FLUSH_STABLE; if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) ret = FLUSH_COND_STABLE; - if (wbc->for_kupdate || wbc->for_background) - ret |= FLUSH_LOWPRI; return ret; } -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
