Re: [PATCH 2/6] writeback: stop background writeback when belowbackground threshold

[Jens Axboe]

On Wed, Sep 23 2009, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Treat bdi_start_writeback(0) as a special request to do background write,
> and stop such work when we are below the background dirty threshold.
> 
> Also simplify the (nr_pages <= 0) checks. Since we already pass in
> nr_pages=LONG_MAX for WB_SYNC_ALL and background writes, we don't
> need to worry about it being decreased to zero.

Good cleanup! Do you want me to collect these fixes, or how shall we
handle this?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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