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authorJustin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>2011-07-12 10:31:45 +0400
committerJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2011-07-12 10:35:10 +0400
commit4aede84b33d6beb401136a3deca0651ae07c5e99 (patch)
tree831266dbb15227584da5011ae4bb1e5038a69677 /include/linux/init_task.h
parenta07405b7802691d29ab3b23bdc76ee6d006aad0b (diff)
downloadlinux-4aede84b33d6beb401136a3deca0651ae07c5e99.tar.xz
fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.
fs_excl is a poor man's priority inheritance for filesystems to hint to the block layer that an operation is important. It was never clearly specified, not widely adopted, and will not prevent starvation in many cases (like across cgroups). fs_excl was introduced with the time sliced CFQ IO scheduler, to indicate when a process held FS exclusive resources and thus needed a boost. It doesn't cover all file systems, and it was never fully complete. Lets kill it. Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/init_task.h')
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diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h
index 580f70c02391..d14e058aaeed 100644
--- a/include/linux/init_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
@@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ extern struct cred init_cred;
.alloc_lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(tsk.alloc_lock), \
.journal_info = NULL, \
.cpu_timers = INIT_CPU_TIMERS(tsk.cpu_timers), \
- .fs_excl = ATOMIC_INIT(0), \
.pi_lock = __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(tsk.pi_lock), \
.timer_slack_ns = 50000, /* 50 usec default slack */ \
.pids = { \