Re: [PATCH] doc: cgroup: add f2fs and xfs to supported list for writeback

From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Wed Jul 01 2020 - 09:25:19 EST


On 7/1/20 3:32 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 08:59:34AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> On 6/30/20 12:42 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 02:08:09PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>>> f2fs and xfs have both added support for cgroup writeback:
>>>>
>>>> 578c647 f2fs: implement cgroup writeback support
>>>> adfb5fb xfs: implement cgroup aware writeback
>>>>
>>>> so add them to the supported list in the docs.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> TBH I wonder about the wisdom of having this detail in
>>>> the doc, as it apparently gets missed quite often ...
>>>
>>> I'd rather remove the list of file systems. It has no chance of
>>> staying uptodate.
>>
>> Is there any way for a user to know whether a filesytem does or doesn't
>> support it, in practice?
>
> git-grep SB_I_CGROUPWB

Sure, but that's not quite what I meant by "a user" :) So I'll take that
as a no.

Thanks,
-Eric