Setting flushtime to zero make no sense and if it would make sense it
would be a jiffy-wrap bug.
This patch cleanup the flushtime handling in 2.3.15-pre2.
--- 2.3.15-pre2-flushtime/fs/buffer.c.~1~ Thu Aug 12 02:53:23 1999
+++ 2.3.15-pre2-flushtime/fs/buffer.c Mon Aug 23 18:49:16 1999
@@ -227,7 +227,6 @@
continue;
atomic_inc(&bh->b_count);
- bh->b_flushtime = 0;
spin_unlock(&lru_list_lock);
ll_rw_block(WRITE, 1, &bh);
atomic_dec(&bh->b_count);
@@ -437,7 +436,6 @@
}
if (atomic_read(&bh->b_count))
continue;
- bh->b_flushtime = 0;
clear_bit(BH_Protected, &bh->b_state);
clear_bit(BH_Uptodate, &bh->b_state);
clear_bit(BH_Dirty, &bh->b_state);
@@ -652,7 +650,6 @@
clear_bit(BH_Dirty, &bh->b_state);
clear_bit(BH_Uptodate, &bh->b_state);
clear_bit(BH_Req, &bh->b_state);
- bh->b_flushtime = 0;
}
if (atomic_read(&bh->b_count) == 0) {
__remove_from_queues(bh);
@@ -678,7 +675,6 @@
void init_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh, bh_end_io_t *handler, void *dev_id)
{
bh->b_list = BUF_CLEAN;
- bh->b_flushtime = 0;
bh->b_end_io = handler;
bh->b_dev_id = dev_id;
}
@@ -792,12 +788,8 @@
repeat:
bh = get_hash_table(dev, block, size);
- if (bh) {
- if (!buffer_dirty(bh)) {
- bh->b_flushtime = 0;
- }
+ if (bh)
goto out;
- }
isize = BUFSIZE_INDEX(size);
spin_lock(&free_list[isize].lock);
@@ -1132,7 +1124,6 @@
bh->b_data = (char *) (page+offset);
bh->b_list = BUF_CLEAN;
- bh->b_flushtime = 0;
bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_io_bad;
}
return head;
@@ -2324,7 +2315,6 @@
continue;
/* OK, now we are committed to write it out. */
- bh->b_flushtime = 0;
atomic_inc(&bh->b_count);
spin_unlock(&lru_list_lock);
ll_rw_block(WRITE, 1, &bh);
@@ -2448,7 +2438,6 @@
major = MAJOR(bh->b_dev);
written++;
- bh->b_flushtime = 0;
/*
* For the loop major we can try to do asynchronous writes,
Andrea
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