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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] zram: remove BD_CAP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO with writeback feature
On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 11:51:43 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:

> > Is it legitimate to be altering the bdi capabilities at this level? Or
> > is this hacky?
>
> Most of device's bdi capability seems to be static but there are few drivers
> which can change capability. For example, BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES
>
> drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c
> drivers/md/raid5.c
>
> I believe it's driver itself advertisement stuff so I hope it's not hack.

The bdi is per-disk (per-queue). So if zram changes the bdi for a
particular partition then it is accidentally mucking with the other
partitions as well, and it shouldn't do that. At least, I think that's
how it works - it's been a while. Jens, wake up ;)

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