Re: [PATCH 06/12] writeback: separate the flushing state/task fromthe bdi

[Jan Kara]

On Mon 25-05-09 09:34:41, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Add a struct bdi_writeback for tracking and handling dirty IO. This
> is in preparation for adding > 1 flusher task per bdi.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
...
>  static int bdi_start_fn(void *ptr)
>  {
> -	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = ptr;
> +	struct bdi_writeback *wb = ptr;
> +	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = wb->bdi;
>  	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * Add us to the active bdi_list
> -	 */
> -	mutex_lock(&bdi_lock);
> -	list_add(&bdi->bdi_list, &bdi_list);
> -	mutex_unlock(&bdi_lock);
  I'm probably missing something but I cannot find where the bdi is added
to the bdi_list after this patch...

									Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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