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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:10:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071028071049.GD8933@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193520945.27652.36.camel@twins>

On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:35:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 23:08 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > All this open-coded attribute stuff should go away and be replaced by:
> >   bdi_class->dev_attrs = bdi_dev_attrs;
> > Otherwise at event time the attributes are not created and stuff hooking
> > into the events will not be able to set values. Also, the core will do
> > proper add/remove and error handling then.
> 
> ok, that's good to know. someone ought to write a book on how to use all
> this... really, even the functions are bare of documentation or
> comments.

Yes, I know, sorry :(

I'm working on cleaning up the apis a lot right now, so hopefully, in a
few months things will have settled down.  I'm trying to document things
as I go, but right now I'm stuck at a much lower level (ksets and
friends...)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-28  7:08 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
2007-10-27 21:08                                             ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-27 21:35                                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-28  7:10                                                 ` Greg KH [this message]
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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