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

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Sep 21 2017 - 11:00:54 EST


On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 09:32:59AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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.

Oh btw - I think this actually is the more important change and
should probably be in the subject line.