NFS: Clean up nfs_create_request comments
Remove some stale comments about hard limits which went away in 2.5.
Signed-off-by: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
diff --git a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
index d846d39..fe90130 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
@@ -51,9 +51,7 @@
* @count: number of bytes to read/write
*
* The page must be locked by the caller. This makes sure we never
- * create two different requests for the same page, and avoids
- * a possible deadlock when we reach the hard limit on the number
- * of dirty pages.
+ * create two different requests for the same page.
* User should ensure it is safe to sleep in this function.
*/
struct nfs_page *
@@ -64,16 +62,12 @@
struct nfs_server *server = NFS_SERVER(inode);
struct nfs_page *req;
- /* Deal with hard limits. */
for (;;) {
/* try to allocate the request struct */
req = nfs_page_alloc();
if (req != NULL)
break;
- /* Try to free up at least one request in order to stay
- * below the hard limit
- */
if (signalled() && (server->flags & NFS_MOUNT_INTR))
return ERR_PTR(-ERESTARTSYS);
yield();