linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/7] writeback: get rid of task/current_is

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Message-ID: <20090316102229.GP27476@kernel.dk>
Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:22:30 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	chris.mason@...cle.com, david@...morbit.com, npiggin@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] writeback: get rid of task/current_is_pdflush()

On Mon, Mar 16 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 03:33:45PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > There's just a single user in the kernel and Chris says it's safe to kill.
> 
> I'll defer about the use to Chris, but if this can go it should now,
> not deep inside the series.

Oh agree, the series was more of an RFC, it wasn't a submission. It's
not even well tested yet. I'll snip the emergency sync/remount stuff and
this out of the series and put it at the front, so it can go in seperate
and earlier.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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