From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu, torvalds@osdl.org, davidm@snapgear.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:27:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18569.1110364058@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050308163759.2ff4be57.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > The attached patch replaces backing_dev_info::memory_backed with
> > capabilitied bitmap.
>
> Looks sane to me, thanks.
>
> I hope you got all the conversions correct - breakage in the writeback
> dirty accounting manifests in subtle ways. I'll double-check it.
I think I got the logic as-was. This is quite easy to check just by looking at
the patch. However, the as-was logic should possibly be changed to reflect the
fact that the one control that there was has now been split into two.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-09 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-02 15:50 Improving mmap() support for !MMU further David Howells
2005-03-02 17:07 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-02 21:34 ` [PATCH 1/2] BDI: Provide backing device capability information David Howells
2005-03-02 21:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-02 22:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-02 22:39 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-03 13:42 ` David Howells
2005-03-03 20:33 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-03 13:38 ` David Howells
2005-03-03 20:34 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-07 11:23 ` David Howells
2005-03-07 11:37 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-07 11:43 ` David Howells
2005-03-07 11:47 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-07 11:51 ` David Howells
2005-03-07 12:10 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-07 12:25 ` David Howells
2005-03-07 14:05 ` David Howells
2005-03-07 15:21 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-03-07 15:41 ` David Howells
2005-03-07 15:45 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-03-07 16:06 ` David Howells
2005-03-07 16:15 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-03-07 20:14 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-08 14:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3] David Howells
2005-03-09 0:37 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-09 10:27 ` David Howells [this message]
2005-03-02 21:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] BDI: Improve nommu mmap support David Howells
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