Re: [PATCHv4 17/17] writeback: lessen sync_supers wakeup count

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu May 27 2010 - 05:09:10 EST


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 05:22:40PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Yeah, we definitely don't want to add global cacheline writes in the
> common case. Also I don't know why you do the strange -1 value. I
> couldn't seem to find where you defined bdi_arm_supers_timer();

bdi_arm_supers_timer() is in the mainline; basically, it's "schedule
timer that'll wake sync_supers_tsk in $INTERVAL from now".
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