Re: [PATCH 1/2] BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]

2005-03-09 Thread David Howells
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The attached patch replaces backing_dev_info::memory_backed with > > capabilitied bitmap. > > Looks sane to me, thanks. > > I hope you got all the conversions correct - breakage in the writeback > dirty accounting manifests in subtle ways. I'll doubl

Re: [PATCH 1/2] BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]

2005-03-08 Thread Andrew Morton
David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The attached patch replaces backing_dev_info::memory_backed with capabilitied > bitmap. Looks sane to me, thanks. I hope you got all the conversions correct - breakage in the writeback dirty accounting manifests in subtle ways. I'll double-check it. -

[PATCH 1/2] BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]

2005-03-08 Thread David Howells
The attached patch replaces backing_dev_info::memory_backed with capabilitied bitmap. The capabilities available include: (*) BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_DIRTY Set if the pages associated with this backing device should not be tracked by the dirty page accounting. (*) BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK