Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc8' into core/locking

Merge reason: we were on -rc4, move to -rc8 before applying
              a new batch of locking infrastructure changes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
index 7ec89fc05b2b..aecf2519db76 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
@@ -1268,6 +1268,14 @@ xfs_vm_writepage(
         if (!page_has_buffers(page))
                 create_empty_buffers(page, 1 << inode->i_blkbits, 0);
 
+
+        /*
+         *  VM calculation for nr_to_write seems off.  Bump it way
+         *  up, this gets simple streaming writes zippy again.
+         *  To be reviewed again after Jens' writeback changes.
+         */
+        wbc->nr_to_write *= 4;
+
         /*
          * Convert delayed allocate, unwritten or unmapped space
          * to real space and flush out to disk.