From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] writeback: avoid extra sync work at enqueue time
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 14:41:22 +0200
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On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 08:27:32PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> -	wbc.wb_start = jiffies; /* livelock avoidance */
> +	oldest_jif = jiffies;
> +	wbc.older_than_this = &oldest_jif;

Can't you kill the oldest_jif variable now?