[PATCH 05/12] writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks (cifs)

[Wu Fengguang]

No one is calling wb_writeback and write_cache_pages with
wbc.nonblocking=1 any more. And lumpy pageout will want to do
nonblocking writeback without the congestion wait.

CC: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/cifs/file.c |   10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

--- linux.orig/fs/cifs/file.c	2009-11-18 16:25:49.000000000 +0800
+++ linux/fs/cifs/file.c	2009-11-18 16:25:57.000000000 +0800
@@ -1379,16 +1379,6 @@ static int cifs_writepages(struct addres
 		return generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
 
 
-	/*
-	 * BB: Is this meaningful for a non-block-device file system?
-	 * If it is, we should test it again after we do I/O
-	 */
-	if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
-		wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
-		kfree(iov);
-		return 0;
-	}
-
 	xid = GetXid();
 
 	pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);


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