[PATCH 05/45] writeback: remove the always false bdi_cap_writeback_dirty() test

[Wu Fengguang]

This is dead code because no bdi flush thread will be started for
!bdi_cap_writeback_dirty bdis.

CC: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/fs-writeback.c |   18 ------------------
 1 file changed, 18 deletions(-)

--- linux.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c	2009-10-06 23:31:59.000000000 +0800
+++ linux/fs/fs-writeback.c	2009-10-06 23:37:57.000000000 +0800
@@ -617,7 +617,6 @@ static void writeback_inodes_wb(struct b
 				struct writeback_control *wbc)
 {
 	struct super_block *sb = wbc->sb, *pin_sb = NULL;
-	const int is_blkdev_sb = sb_is_blkdev_sb(sb);
 	const unsigned long start = jiffies;	/* livelock avoidance */
 
 	spin_lock(&inode_lock);
@@ -638,23 +637,6 @@ static void writeback_inodes_wb(struct b
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		if (!bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(wb->bdi)) {
-			redirty_tail(inode);
-			if (is_blkdev_sb) {
-				/*
-				 * Dirty memory-backed blockdev: the ramdisk
-				 * driver does this.  Skip just this inode
-				 */
-				continue;
-			}
-			/*
-			 * Dirty memory-backed inode against a filesystem other
-			 * than the kernel-internal bdev filesystem.  Skip the
-			 * entire superblock.
-			 */
-			break;
-		}
-
 		if (inode->i_state & (I_NEW | I_WILL_FREE)) {
 			requeue_io(inode);
 			continue;


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