Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 0/6] mm: bdi: updates | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:32:38 +0100 |
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> 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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