[Drbd-dev] [PATCH 0/9] Remove remaining parts of congestions tracking code.

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Thu Jan 27 23:42:29 CET 2022


On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:46:29 +1100 NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de> wrote:

> Congestion hasn't been reliably tracked for quite some time.
> Most MM uses of it for guiding writeback decisions were removed in 5.16.
> Some other uses were removed in 17-rc1.
> 
> This series removes the remaining places that test for congestion, and
> the few places which still set it.
> 
> The second patch touches a few filesystems.  I didn't think there was
> much value in splitting this out by filesystems, but if maintainers
> would rather I did that, I will.
> 
> The f2fs, cephfs, fuse, NFS, and block patches can go through the
> respective trees proving the final patch doesn't land until after they
> all do - so maybe it should be held for 5.18-rc2 if all the rest lands
> by 5.18-rc1.

Plan B: I'll just take everything.  While collecting tested-bys and
acked-bys from filesystem maintainers (please).



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