| Date | Fri, 8 Oct 2010 03:01:54 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/18] fs: keep inode with backing-dev |
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:21:17PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> > > Having inode on writeback lists of a different bdi than > inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info makes it very difficult to do > per-bdi locking of the writeback lists. Add functions to move these > inodes over when the mapping backing dev is changed. > > Also, rename i_mapping.backing_dev_info to i_mapping.a_bdi while we're > here. Succinct is nice, and it catches conversion errors.
NAK. This is fixed by my patch to always use s_bdi for writeback purposed that hit Linus' tree two days ago.
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