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From: Christoph Hellwig on 21 Jul 2010 08:10
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:31:44PM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy(a)nokia.com>
>
> This patch re-structures the loop which walks bdi a little. This is just a
> micro-step towards the coming change where the forker thread will kill the bdi
> threads. It should simplify reviewing the following changes, which would
> otherwise be larger.
>
> This patch also adds the 'bdi_cap_flush_forker(bdi)' condition check to the
> loop. The reason for this is that the forker thread can start _before_ the
> 'BDI_registered' flag is set (see 'bdi_register()'), so the WARN() statement
> will fire for the default bdi. I observed this warning at boot-up.
>
> This patch also amends comments a little.

Looks good,


Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch(a)lst.de>

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