Re: [PATCH 12/12] writeback: kill off ->range_cycle option

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Sep 27 2017 - 16:23:07 EST


On 09/27/2017 10:13 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> All types of writeback are now range cyclic. Kill off the member
> from struct wb_writeback_work and struct writeback_control.
>
> Remove the various checks for whether or not this is range cyclic
> writeback or not in the writeback code and file systems.
>
> For tracing, we leave the member there, and just always set it to 1.

Disregard this patch, there are obviously places where we don't set
range_cyclic at all and write out a subset of the dirty pages (or
just one). Needs more looking into, for now just ignore this last
patch in the series.

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Jens Axboe