Re: [PATCH 4/7] page-writeback: pass in '0' for nr_pages writeback in laptop mode

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 09:32:59AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Laptop mode really wants to writeback the number of dirty
> pages and inodes. Instead of calculating this in the caller,
> just pass in 0 and let wakeup_flusher_threads() handle it.
> 
> Use the new wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi() instead of rolling
> our own. This changes the writeback to not be range cyclic,
> but that should not matter for laptop mode flush-all
> semantics.

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

While we're at sorting out the laptop_mode_wb_timer mess:
can we move initializing and deleting it from the block code
to the backing-dev code given that it now doesn't assume anything
about block devices any more?