On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 08:54:32AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> 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, I noticed these lines in cfq code
sscanf(dev_name(bdi->dev), "%u:%u", &major, &minor);
Why not use bdi->dev->devt? The problem is that dev_name() will
return "btrfs-X" for btrfs rather than "major:minor".
Thanks,
Fengguang
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