Re: [PATCH 7/7] fs-writeback: only allow one inflight and pending full flush

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Sep 21 2017 - 13:33:49 EST


On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:00:25AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Something like the below would fit on top to do that. Gets rid of the
> allocation and embeds the work item for global start-all in the
> bdi_writeback structure.

Something like that. Although if we still kalloc the global
wb we wouldn't have to expose all the details in the header.