From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Piggin Subject: [patch 00/44] Buffered write deadlock fix and new aops for 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:23:46 +1000 Message-ID: <20070424012346.696840000@suse.de> Cc: Linux Filesystems , Mark Fasheh To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:50499 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752625AbXDXFUv (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:20:51 -0400 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Hi, these patches are against 2.6.21-rc6-mm1. Aside from OCFS2, there were no major clashes between -mm and mainline diffs, which is nice. These patches aim to solve the long standing buffered write deadlocks, and then go on to introduce a pair of new write a_op methods which allow the deadlock to be solved without taking the performance hit of the backwards compatible solutions using the old APIs. Reiserfs (and Reiser4, in -mm) are the only filesystems left unconverted, although there are a number of less common ones still untested. Thanks, Nick