--- /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.0-test11-pre5/fs/buffer.c	Tue Nov 14 22:53:19 2000
+++ fs/buffer.c	Fri Nov 17 01:09:55 2000
@@ -1534,7 +1534,7 @@
 		unsigned from, unsigned to)
 {
 	unsigned block_start, block_end;
-	int partial = 0, need_balance_dirty = 0;
+	int partial = 0;
 	unsigned blocksize;
 	struct buffer_head *bh, *head;
 
@@ -1549,15 +1549,11 @@
 				partial = 1;
 		} else {
 			set_bit(BH_Uptodate, &bh->b_state);
-			if (!atomic_set_buffer_dirty(bh)) {
+			if (!atomic_set_buffer_dirty(bh))
 				__mark_dirty(bh);
-				need_balance_dirty = 1;
-			}
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (need_balance_dirty)
-		balance_dirty(bh->b_dev);
 	/*
 	 * is this a partial write that happened to make all buffers
 	 * uptodate then we can optimize away a bogus readpage() for