Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755799AbXJZPWi (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:22:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752887AbXJZPWb (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:22:31 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:60814 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751142AbXJZPWb (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:22:31 -0400 Subject: Re: per BDI dirty limit (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) From: Peter Zijlstra To: Kay Sievers Cc: Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , Fengguang Wu , greg@kroah.com, Trond Myklebust , Miklos Szeredi In-Reply-To: <1193411451.2431.13.camel@lov.site> References: <20071001142222.fcaa8d57.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <3ae72650710020421t711caaa8o13d2e685a98e5fe8@mail.gmail.com> <1191325226.13204.63.camel@twins> <200710022205.05295.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <1191406506.4093.35.camel@lov.localdomain> <1191407872.5572.7.camel@lappy> <1191418525.4093.87.camel@lov.localdomain> <1193410087.6914.34.camel@twins> <1193411451.2431.13.camel@lov.site> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:22:27 +0200 Message-Id: <1193412147.27652.2.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1157 Lines: 28 On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 17:10 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 16:48 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > I appreciate the sysfs people their opinion that /sys/bdi/ might not be the > > best from their POV, however I'm not seeing where to hook the BDI object from > > so that it all makes sense, a few of the things are currently not exposed in > > sysfs at all, like the NFS and FUSE things. > > What happended to the idea to create a "bdi" class, and have the > existing devices as parents, and for stuff that is not (not now, or > never) in sysfs, no parent is set. Must have forgotten about that, mainly because I'm not sure I fully understand it. So we create a class, create these objects, which are all called bdi and have children with these attributes in it. Now, I supposed there is a directory that lists all unparented thingies, how do I locate the one that matches my nfs mount? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/