From: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com>
Subject: [TRIVIAL] Clean up nfs_create_request comments
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:26:26 -0800
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Remove some stale comments about hard limits which went away in 2.5.

Signed-off-by: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com>
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--- linux.orig/fs/nfs/pagelist.c	2006-11-24 23:03:00.350861445 -0800
+++ linux/fs/nfs/pagelist.c	2006-11-24 23:04:06.213414314 -0800
@@ -49,9 +49,7 @@
  * @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 *
@@ -62,16 +60,12 @@
 	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();

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