Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jan 2015 10:11:54 -0500 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET v2 block/for-next] writeback: prepare for cgroup writeback support |
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Hello,
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:19:45AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This needs a rebase over my "backing_dev_info cleanups" series, which > starts to sort out the bdi lifetime issues. I think this series is
Shouldn't be a problem.
> fine to go over just that, but before any bigger bdi changes we'll > also need to sort out the rest of the lifetime issues. I have some > WIP patches for that which I'll be able to post soon.
Sure, remaining uses should really pin everything down to the request_queue. That said, this patchset shouldn't affect the lifetime management of bdi's. Nothing spills out of bdi proper.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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