It's -mm staff. Just to make the inode list time ordering check logic comfortable. Otherwise the old behavior is preferred. Cc: Ken Chen Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 9 +-------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.23-rc2-mm2.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ linux-2.6.23-rc2-mm2/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -224,14 +224,7 @@ static void redirty_tail(struct inode *i struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; check_dirty_inode(inode); - if (!list_empty(&sb->s_dirty)) { - struct inode *tail_inode; - - tail_inode = list_entry(sb->s_dirty.next, struct inode, i_list); - if (!time_after_eq(inode->dirtied_when, - tail_inode->dirtied_when)) - inode->dirtied_when = jiffies; - } + inode->dirtied_when = jiffies; list_move(&inode->i_list, &sb->s_dirty); check_dirty_inode(inode); } -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/