The `last_bh' logic probably isn't worth much. In those situations where only the front part of the page is being written out we will save some looping but in the vastly more common case of an all-page writeout if just adds more code. Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/buffer.c | 10 +--------- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/buffer.c~__block_write_full_page-simplification fs/buffer.c --- 25/fs/buffer.c~__block_write_full_page-simplification 2005-05-03 16:14:22.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/fs/buffer.c 2005-05-03 16:14:22.000000000 -0700 @@ -1751,7 +1751,7 @@ static int __block_write_full_page(struc int err; sector_t block; sector_t last_block; - struct buffer_head *bh, *head, *last_bh = NULL; + struct buffer_head *bh, *head; int nr_underway = 0; BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)); @@ -1826,7 +1826,6 @@ static int __block_write_full_page(struc } if (test_clear_buffer_dirty(bh)) { mark_buffer_async_write(bh); - last_bh = bh; } else { unlock_buffer(bh); } @@ -1844,12 +1843,9 @@ static int __block_write_full_page(struc if (buffer_async_write(bh)) { submit_bh(WRITE, bh); nr_underway++; - if (bh == last_bh) - break; } bh = next; } while (bh != head); - bh = head; unlock_page(page); err = 0; @@ -1892,7 +1888,6 @@ recover: if (buffer_mapped(bh) && buffer_dirty(bh)) { lock_buffer(bh); mark_buffer_async_write(bh); - last_bh = bh; } else { /* * The buffer may have been set dirty during @@ -1911,12 +1906,9 @@ recover: clear_buffer_dirty(bh); submit_bh(WRITE, bh); nr_underway++; - if (bh == last_bh) - break; } bh = next; } while (bh != head); - bh = head; goto done; } _