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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] writeback: simplify the write back thread queue
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:49:03 +0200
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On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 09:47:05AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> I'm fine with this, we can always bring back support for > 1 writeback
> thread per bdi when the need arises.

Note that this patch should actually make an eventual implementation
of > 1 writeback thread simpler if we want to go there - removing the
item from the list early means there is no need to deal with any kind of
race avoidance.