On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 02:25:14PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 11:40 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > > Ok, that's good to know. How would we configure this special bdi? I am > > assuming there is no backing device visible in /sys/block/<device>/queue/? > > Same is true for network file systems. > > root@twins:/usr/src/linux-2.6# awk '/nfs/ {print $3}' /proc/self/mountinfo | while read bdi ; do ls -la /sys/class/bdi/${bdi}/ ; done > ls: cannot access /sys/class/bdi/0:20/: No such file or directory > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2012-03-27 23:18 . > drwxr-xr-x 35 root root 0 2012-03-27 23:02 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2012-04-14 14:22 max_ratio > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2012-04-14 14:22 min_ratio > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2012-04-14 14:22 power > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2012-04-14 14:22 read_ahead_kb > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2012-03-27 23:18 subsystem -> ../../../../class/bdi > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2012-03-27 23:18 uevent Ok, got it. So /proc/self/mountinfo has the information about st_dev and one can use that to reach to associated bdi. Thanks Peter. Vivek -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>