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    writeback: simplify the write back thread queue · 83ba7b07
    Christoph Hellwig authored
    
    
    First remove items from work_list as soon as we start working on them.  This
    means we don't have to track any pending or visited state and can get
    rid of all the RCU magic freeing the work items - we can simply free
    them once the operation has finished.  Second use a real completion for
    tracking synchronous requests - if the caller sets the completion pointer
    we complete it, otherwise use it as a boolean indicator that we can free
    the work item directly.  Third unify struct wb_writeback_args and struct
    bdi_work into a single data structure, wb_writeback_work.  Previous we
    set all parameters into a struct wb_writeback_args, copied it into
    struct bdi_work, copied it again on the stack to use it there.  Instead
    of just allocate one structure dynamically or on the stack and use it
    all the way through the stack.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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