From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] break out of ext4_num_dirty_pages() when we hit
 max_pages
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:24:10 -0400
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On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 02:00:58PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> ext4_num_dirty_pages() will continue scanning after we accumulate
> max_pages, possibly for a very long time without doing anything
> useful at all.  When we hit max_pages, we should set done=1
> so that the break will release the pagevec, exit the loop, and
> return from the function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

Added to the ext4 tree, thanks.

					- Ted