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From: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: dsterba@suse.cz
Cc: Linux Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] vfs: re-implement writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle() and rename them
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:24:15 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50EE345F.1090600@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121228143338.GW14116@twin.jikos.cz>

On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:33:38 +0100, David Sterba wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 06:09:35PM +0800, Miao Xie wrote:
>> --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
>> +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
>> @@ -1314,7 +1314,6 @@ void writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *sb,
>>  	bdi_queue_work(sb->s_bdi, &work);
>>  	wait_for_completion(&done);
>>  }
>> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(writeback_inodes_sb_nr);
> 
> Why do you remove the export? writeback_inodes_sb is exported as well.

As you said below, there is no user now.

> Originally the _nr variant has been introduced for btrfs
> (3259f8bed2f0f57c2fdcdac1b510c3fa319ef97e) and there are no other users
> now, so from that point it would make sense. From the other side, the
> change is not strictly necessary for this patch and keeps the writeback
> API a bit more flexible. I vote for keeping it.

Maybe you are right, I'll send out a new one.

> Otherwise (for the btrfs part),
> Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>

Thanks for your test and review.
Miao


  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-10  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-20 10:09 [PATCH RESEND] vfs: re-implement writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle() and rename them Miao Xie
2012-12-28 14:33 ` David Sterba
2013-01-10  3:24   ` Miao Xie [this message]
2013-01-10  5:47   ` [PATCH V2] " Miao Xie
2013-01-11 20:12     ` Jan Kara
2013-01-12  2:54       ` Fengguang Wu

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