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SubjectRe: remove dead bdi congestion leftovers
On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 12:41:03PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01 2020 at 5:06am -0400,
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi Jens,
> >
> > we have a lot of bdi congestion related code that is left around without
> > any use. This series removes it in preparation of sorting out the bdi
> > lifetime rules properly.
>
> I could do some git archeology to see what the fs, mm and block core
> changes were to stop using bdi congested but a pointer to associated
> changes (or quick recap) would save me some time.
>
> Also, curious to know how back-pressure should be felt back up the IO
> stack now? (apologies if these are well worn topics, I haven't been
> tracking this area of development).

It isn't. Jens declared the implementation was broken, and broke it
more. So we're just living with stupid broken timeouts.

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