This patch removes some questionable code that attempted to make a
no-longer-used page easier to reclaim.
Calling metapage_writepage against such a page will not result in any
I/O being performed, so removing this code shouldn't be a big deal.
[ It's likely that we could have just replaced the "clear_page_dirty()"
call with a call to "cancel_dirty_page()" instead, but in the
meantime this is cleaner and simpler anyway, so unless there is some
overriding reason (and Dave implies there isn't) I'll just use this
patch as-is. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
} else if (mp->lsn) /* discard_metapage doesn't remove it */
remove_from_logsync(mp);
-#if MPS_PER_PAGE == 1
- /*
- * If we know this is the only thing in the page, we can throw
- * the page out of the page cache. If pages are larger, we
- * don't want to do this.
- */
-
- /* Retest mp->count since we may have released page lock */
- if (test_bit(META_discard, &mp->flag) && !mp->count) {
- clear_page_dirty(page);
- ClearPageUptodate(page);
- }
-#else
/* Try to keep metapages from using up too much memory */
drop_metapage(page, mp);
-#endif
+
unlock_page(page);
page_cache_release(page);
}