NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP removal The removal of the counter is straightforward. The reason for the large Cc list is that there is a comment in mm/page-writeback.c function wb_position_ratio() that mentions NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP, and just deleting the sentence feels to me it could be the wrong thing to do - maybe the strictlimit feature itself is now obsolete? It sure does mention FUSE as the main reason to exist, but commit 5a53748568f79 that introduced it also mentions slow USB sticks as a possibile scenario. Has that happened? I'm not familiar enough with this so I'd rather highlight this and ask for input here than make "git grep NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP" return nothing. # Describe the purpose of this series. The information you put here # will be used by the project maintainer to make a decision whether # your patches should be reviewed, and in what priority order. Please be # very detailed and link to any relevant discussions or sites that the # maintainer can review to better understand your proposed changes. If you # only have a single patch in your series, the contents of the cover # letter will be appended to the "under-the-cut" portion of the patch. # Lines starting with # will be removed from the cover letter. You can # use them to add notes or reminders to yourself. If you want to use # markdown headers in your cover letter, start the line with ">#". # You can add trailers to the cover letter. Any email addresses found in # these trailers will be added to the addresses specified/generated # during the b4 send stage. You can also run "b4 prep --auto-to-cc" to # auto-populate the To: and Cc: trailers based on the code being # modified. To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> To: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com> Cc: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> --- Changes in v2: - EDITME: describe what is new in this series revision. - EDITME: use bulletpoints and terse descriptions. - Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20250625-nr_writeback_removal-v1-1-7f2a0df70faa@suse.cz --- b4-submit-tracking --- # This section is used internally by b4 prep for tracking purposes. { "series": { "revision": 2, "change-id": "20250625-nr_writeback_removal-4eca139cf09a", "prefixes": [], "history": { "v1": [ "20250625-nr_writeback_removal-v1-1-7f2a0df70faa@suse.cz" ] } } }