Re: Networked filesystems vs backing_dev_info

2007-10-28 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 23:30 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: So in short, stick a struct backing_dev_info into whatever represents a client, initialize it using bdi_init(), destroy using bdi_destroy(). Oh, and the most important point, make your fresh I_NEW inodes point to th

Re: Networked filesystems vs backing_dev_info

2007-10-27 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 23:30 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 16:02 -0500, Steve French wrote: > > On 10/27/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I had me a little look at bdi usage in networked filesystems. > > > > > > NFS, CIFS, (smbfs), AFS, CODA

Re: Networked filesystems vs backing_dev_info

2007-10-27 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 16:02 -0500, Steve French wrote: > On 10/27/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had me a little look at bdi usage in networked filesystems. > > > > NFS, CIFS, (smbfs), AFS, CODA and NCP > > > > And of those, NFS is the only one that I could find th

Re: Networked filesystems vs backing_dev_info

2007-10-27 Thread Steve French
On 10/27/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I had me a little look at bdi usage in networked filesystems. > > NFS, CIFS, (smbfs), AFS, CODA and NCP > > And of those, NFS is the only one that I could find that creates > backing_dev_info structures. The rest seems to fall back t

Re: Networked filesystems vs backing_dev_info

2007-10-27 Thread Jan Harkes
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:34:26AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > I had me a little look at bdi usage in networked filesystems. > > NFS, CIFS, (smbfs), AFS, CODA and NCP > > And of those, NFS is the only one that I could find that creates > backing_dev_info structures. The rest seems to fall bac

Re: Networked filesystems vs backing_dev_info

2007-10-27 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 11:22 -0400, Jan Harkes wrote: > On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:34:26AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > I had me a little look at bdi usage in networked filesystems. > > > > NFS, CIFS, (smbfs), AFS, CODA and NCP > > > > And of those, NFS is the only one that I could find that

Networked filesystems vs backing_dev_info

2007-10-27 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Hi, I had me a little look at bdi usage in networked filesystems. NFS, CIFS, (smbfs), AFS, CODA and NCP And of those, NFS is the only one that I could find that creates backing_dev_info structures. The rest seems to fall back to default_backing_dev_info. With my recent per bdi dirty limit patc