Re: [PATCH 07/12] writeback: support > 1 flusher thread per bdi

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Jun 04 2009 - 15:48:26 EST


On Thu, Jun 04 2009, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:33:45AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Build on the bdi_writeback support by allowing registration of
> > more than 1 flusher thread. File systems can call bdi_add_flusher_task(bdi)
> > to add more flusher threads to the device. If they do so, they must also
> > provide a super_operations function to return the suitable bdi_writeback
> > struct from any given inode.
>
> Looks good from an RCU perspective. SRCU used for wb_list, RCU for the
> other RCU-protected data. ;-)

Great, thanks for reviewing!

--
Jens Axboe

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