Re: [patch 0/6] mm: bdi: updates

[Miklos Szeredi]

> 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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