From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@gmail.com>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Subject: Re: per BDI dirty limit (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24)
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:07:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1193501238.5648.75.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071027160203.GA5709@kroah.com>
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 09:02 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Ah, I see a few problems. Here, try this version instead. It's
> compile-tested only, and should be a lot simpler.
>
> Note, we still are not setting the parent to the new bdi structure
> properly, so the devices will show up in /sys/devices/virtual/ instead
> of in their proper location. To do this, we need the parent of the
> device, which I'm not so sure what it should be (block device? block
> device controller?)
The problem is that not every bdi has a sysfs represented parent, hence
the class suggestion. For block devices it is indeed the block device
itself, but for example the NFS client's server descriptor does not have
a sysfs representation.
> Let me know if this works better, I'm off to a kids birthday party for
> the day, but will be around this evening...
Hehe, do enjoy! Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-27 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 146+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-01 21:22 -mm merge plans for 2.6.24 Andrew Morton
2007-10-01 21:34 ` wibbling over the cpuset shed domain connnection Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 12:36 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 5:21 ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 13:12 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 7:00 ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-03 10:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 4:21 ` Memory controller merge (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) Balbir Singh
2007-10-02 4:21 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-02 15:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-02 15:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-03 8:13 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-03 8:13 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-03 18:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-03 18:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-04 4:16 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-04 4:16 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-04 13:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-04 13:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-05 3:07 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-05 3:07 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-07 17:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-07 17:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-08 2:54 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-08 2:54 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-04 16:10 ` Paul Menage
2007-10-04 16:10 ` Paul Menage
2007-10-10 21:07 ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-10 21:07 ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-11 6:33 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-11 6:33 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-02 6:18 ` x86 patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24 Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 6:32 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 7:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 7:18 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 7:36 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-10-02 7:43 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 8:16 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-10-02 10:48 ` Yasunori Goto
2007-10-02 18:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-02 17:25 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-10-02 16:40 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-10-02 17:17 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-10-02 18:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-02 7:55 ` Matt Mackall
2007-10-02 7:59 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 9:26 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-10-02 7:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-02 7:46 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 7:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-02 7:59 ` v4l-stk11xx* [Was: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24] Jiri Slaby
2007-10-02 8:08 ` Wireless damage " Jiri Slaby
2007-10-02 8:10 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-10-02 17:37 ` John W. Linville
2007-10-02 8:17 ` per BDI dirty limit (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-02 8:28 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 8:28 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 8:31 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 8:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-02 10:31 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-02 10:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-02 10:47 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 10:47 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 11:22 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-02 11:28 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 11:28 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 11:21 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-02 11:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-02 12:05 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 10:15 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-03 10:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-03 13:35 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-03 13:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-26 14:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-26 15:06 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-26 15:10 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-26 15:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-26 15:33 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-26 15:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-26 15:55 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-26 20:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-27 1:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-27 2:40 ` Greg KH
2007-10-27 8:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-27 16:02 ` Greg KH
2007-10-27 16:07 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-10-27 21:08 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-27 21:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-28 7:10 ` Greg KH
2007-11-02 13:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-02 13:50 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-02 13:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-02 14:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-02 14:32 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-02 14:59 ` [PATCH] mm: sysfs: expose the BDI object in sysfs Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-02 15:13 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-26 16:37 ` per BDI dirty limit (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) Trond Myklebust
2007-12-14 14:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-14 15:14 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-12-14 15:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-02 14:38 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-03 11:00 ` Martin Knoblauch
2007-10-02 8:39 ` writeback fixes Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 8:39 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 16:06 ` kswapd min order, slub max order [was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24] Hugh Dickins
2007-10-02 16:06 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-02 9:10 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-02 9:10 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-02 18:38 ` Mel Gorman
2007-10-02 18:38 ` Mel Gorman
2007-10-02 18:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-02 18:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-03 0:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-03 0:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-02 16:12 ` -mm merge plans for 2.6.24 Pekka Enberg
2007-10-02 16:21 ` new aops merge [was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24] Hugh Dickins
2007-10-02 16:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-02 17:45 ` remove zero_page (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) Nick Piggin
2007-10-02 17:45 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 10:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-03 10:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-03 15:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 15:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-08 15:17 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-08 15:17 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-09 13:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-09 13:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-09 14:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-09 14:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-09 9:31 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-09 9:31 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-10 2:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-10 2:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-09 10:15 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-09 10:15 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-10 3:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-10 3:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-10 4:06 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-10 4:06 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-10 5:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-10 5:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-09 14:30 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-09 14:30 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-10 15:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-10 15:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 19:50 ` A kernel Tracing interface " David Wilder
2007-10-09 9:19 ` r/o bind mounts, was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24 Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-13 8:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2007-10-13 8:52 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-13 11:45 ` Borislav Petkov
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