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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] writeback: support > 1 flusher thread per bdi
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:33:26 -0400
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:24:00PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Build on the bdi_writeback support by allowing registration of
> more than 1 flusher thread. File systems can call bdi_add_flusher_task(bdi)
> to add more flusher threads to the device. If they do so, they must also
> provide a super_operations function to return the suitable bdi_writeback
> struct from any given inode.

Please don't add a inode_get_wb method until we actually have users for it.