From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCHSET v2 block/for-next] writeback: prepare for cgroup writeback support Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 10:11:54 -0500 Message-ID: <20150107151154.GB4395@htj.dyndns.org> References: <1420572557-11572-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <20150107141945.GA29680@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jack@suse.cz, hannes@cmpxchg.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, vgoyal@redhat.com, lizefan@huawei.com, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mhocko@suse.cz To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from mail-qa0-f47.google.com ([209.85.216.47]:53379 "EHLO mail-qa0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753206AbbAGPL6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2015 10:11:58 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150107141945.GA29680@infradead.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:19:45AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This needs a rebase over my "backing_dev_info cleanups" series, which > starts to sort out the bdi lifetime issues. I think this series is Shouldn't be a problem. > fine to go over just that, but before any bigger bdi changes we'll > also need to sort out the rest of the lifetime issues. I have some > WIP patches for that which I'll be able to post soon. Sure, remaining uses should really pin everything down to the request_queue. That said, this patchset shouldn't affect the lifetime management of bdi's. Nothing spills out of bdi proper. Thanks. -- tejun