[PATCH 04/24] fs: Provide infrastructure for dynamic BDIs in filesystems

[Liu Bo]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 02:50:42PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 02-02-17 11:28:27, Liu Bo wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 06:34:02PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > Provide helper functions for setting up dynamically allocated
> > > backing_dev_info structures for filesystems and cleaning them up on
> > > superblock destruction.
> > 
> > Just one concern, will this cause problems for multiple superblock cases
> > like nfs with nosharecache?
> 
> Can you ellaborate a bit? I've looked for a while what nfs with
> nosharecache does but I didn't see how it would influence anything with
> bdis...

Oh, I missed that bdi_seq was static, then it should be fine.

(I was worried about that nfs with nosharecache would have multiple
superblocks and if each superblock has a bdi using the same bdi name,
nfs-xx.)

Thanks for the reply.

Thanks,

-liubo