linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/6] mm: bdi: updates

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Message-Id: <E1JJvGA-00060l-Ja@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:32:38 +0100
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl
CC:	miklos@...redi.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] mm: bdi: updates

> On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 16:49 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > This is a series from Peter Zijlstra, with various updates by me.  The
> > patchset mostly deals with exporting BDI attributes in sysfs.
> > 
> > Should be in a mergeable state, at least into -mm.
> 
> Thanks for picking these up Miklos!
> 
> While they do not strictly depend upon the /proc/<pid>/mountinfo patch I
> think its good to mention they go hand in hand. The mountinfo file gives
> the information needed to associate a mount with a given bdi for non
> block devices.

More precisely /proc/<pid>/mountinfo is only needed to find mounts for
a given BDI (which might not be a very common scenario), and not the
other way round.

But both patches are useful, and they are even more useful together ;)

Miklos
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