writeback: remove the always false bdi_cap_writeback_dirty() test
This is dead code because no bdi flush thread will be started for
!bdi_cap_writeback_dirty bdi.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 9d5360c..0306c8e 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -614,7 +614,6 @@
struct writeback_control *wbc)
{
struct super_block *sb = wbc->sb, *pin_sb = NULL;
- const int is_blkdev_sb = sb_is_blkdev_sb(sb);
const unsigned long start = jiffies; /* livelock avoidance */
spin_lock(&inode_lock);
@@ -635,23 +634,6 @@
continue;
}
- if (!bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(wb->bdi)) {
- redirty_tail(inode);
- if (is_blkdev_sb) {
- /*
- * Dirty memory-backed blockdev: the ramdisk
- * driver does this. Skip just this inode
- */
- continue;
- }
- /*
- * Dirty memory-backed inode against a filesystem other
- * than the kernel-internal bdev filesystem. Skip the
- * entire superblock.
- */
- break;
- }
-
if (inode->i_state & (I_NEW | I_WILL_FREE)) {
requeue_io(inode);
continue;