number has caught up. This means that there is a theoretical possibility of livelock, if the request generation number keeps getting bumped and the flush generation number never catches up. The fix is simple: use the request generation number read at the beginning of the function. Also, atomic_inc() followed by atomic_read() can be replaced with atomic_int_return(). There's no real requirement for atomicity here but we might as well shrink the code. This bug was discovered using David Binderman's list of "set but never used" warnings from icc. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier ²ÍadœBx