Rearrange mdsync() looping logic to avoid the problem that a sufficiently
fast flow of new fsync requests can prevent mdsync() from ever completing. This was an unforeseen consequence of a patch added in Mar 2006 to prevent the fsync request queue from overflowing. Problem identified by Heikki Linnakangas and independently by ITAGAKI Takahiro; fix based on ideas from Takahiro-san, Heikki, and Tom. Back-patch as far as 8.1 because a previous back-patch introduced the problem into 8.1 ...
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