On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 14:23 -0500, Steve French wrote:
> Current use of bdi is a little hard to understand since
> there are 25+ fields in the structure.
Filesystems only need a small fraction of those.
In particular,
backing_dev_info::name -- string
backing_dev_info::ra_pages -- number of read-ahead-pages
backing_dev_info::capability -- see BDI_CAP_*
One should properly initialize/destroy the thing using:
bdi_init()/bdi_destroy()
Furthermore, it has hooks into the regular page-writeback stuff:
test_{set,clear}_page_writeback()/bdi_writeout_inc()
set_page_dirty()/account_page_dirtied()
but also allows filesystems to do custom stuff, see FUSE for example.
The only other bit is the pressure valve, aka.
{set,clear}_bdi_congested(). Which really is rather broken and of
dubious value.
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