SUNRPC: Don't allow low priority tasks to pre-empt higher priority ones

Currently, the priority queues attempt to be 'fair' to lower priority
tasks by scheduling them after a certain number of higher priority tasks
have run. The problem is that both the transport send queue and
the NFSv4.1 session slot queue have strong ordering requirements.

This patch therefore removes the fairness code in favour of strong
ordering of task priorities.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
index dc0c3cc3ada3..b64f8eb0b973 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
@@ -192,7 +192,6 @@ struct rpc_wait_queue {
         pid_t                   owner;                  /* process id of last task serviced */
         unsigned char           maxpriority;            /* maximum priority (0 if queue is not a priority queue) */
         unsigned char           priority;               /* current priority */
-        unsigned char           count;                  /* # task groups remaining serviced so far */
         unsigned char           nr;                     /* # tasks remaining for cookie */
         unsigned short          qlen;                   /* total # tasks waiting in queue */
         struct rpc_timer        timer_list;