Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Cleanup clearing of BDI_pending bit inbdi_forker_thread()

From: Wu Fengguang
Date: Sun Sep 04 2011 - 00:13:21 EST


On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 11:04:42AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 06:54:18AM +0800, Jan Kara wrote:
> > bdi_forker_thread() clears BDI_pending bit at the end of the main loop.
> > However clearing of this bit must not be done in some cases which is handled by
> > calling 'continue' from switch statement. That's kind of unusual construct and
> > without a good reason so change the function into more intuitive code flow.
> >
> > CC: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
>
> It's pure code refactor.
>
> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>

But I do suspect it will slightly increase the code size.
What do you think?

Thanks,
Fengguang
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