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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [patch] fs: fix deadlocks in writeback_if_idle
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:47:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101124144740.bffb2716.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290515274-sup-3895@think>

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:34:07 -0500
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> wrote:

> For btrfs there's only one bdi per SB, but for most everyone else a disk
> with a bunch of partitions is going to have multiple filesystems on the
> same bdi.

um, please explain why that wasn't idiotic?  The BDI is a
representation of a backing device and it's *supposed* to provide
visibility into what's happening against other partitions on the same
device.  Creating a BDI per SB (it didn't even occur to me to think
that a filesystem was even able to do this) breaks that.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-24 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-23 10:02 [patch] fs: fix deadlocks in writeback_if_idle Nick Piggin
2010-11-23 10:11 ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-23 13:18   ` Jan Kara
2010-11-25  3:52     ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-23 10:26 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-11-23 10:54   ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-23 12:00     ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-11-23 12:34 ` Chris Mason
2010-11-23 12:52   ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-23 18:58     ` Chris Mason
2010-11-24  1:03       ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-24 13:10         ` Jan Kara
2010-11-25  3:53           ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-29 22:26             ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-30  0:01               ` Nick Piggin
2010-12-16  3:12                 ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-24 22:51         ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-25  4:07           ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-24 22:47   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-11-25  9:41     ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-11-25 20:30       ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-30  0:50     ` Chris Mason
2010-11-23 12:54 ` Dmitry
2010-11-23 12:54 ` Dmitry

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