On Thu, 18 Nov 2021, Jan Kara wrote: > On Wed 17-11-21 15:34:42, NeilBrown wrote: > > > > Block devices do not, in general, report congestion any more, so this > > congestion_wait() is effectively just a sleep. > > > > It isn't entirely clear what is being waited for, but as we only wait > > when j_async_throttle is elevated, it seems reasonable to stop waiting > > when j_async_throttle becomes zero - or after the same timeout. > > > > So change to use wait_event_event_timeout() for waiting, and > > wake_up_var() to signal an end to waiting. > > > > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> > > --- > > > > I have no idea who might take this.... Jens and Jan have both landed > > reiserfs patches recently... > > Yeah, I guess I can take this one. Honestly the whole code around > j_async_throttle looks a bit suspicious but your patch does not make it > worse so it looks safe to me :). Hi, I don't see this in linux-next. Should I ?? Thanks, NeilBrown
