From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: test needed for a dm-bufio patch
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 18:00:49 +0100
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On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 05:51:50PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Hi Joe
>
> Could you please try this patch
> http://people.redhat.com/agk/patches/linux/editing/dm-bufio-submit-writes-outside-lock.patch
> and test if it generates some regressions for dm-thin?

Hi Mikulas,

I've run a couple of cache tests and don't see any regressions.
performance is similar.  I'll include it in my tree since it seems to
be a good thing.

- Joe