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* [Cluster-devel] [GFS2] Pre-pull patch posting
@ 2009-03-18 12:23 swhiteho
  2009-03-18 12:23 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 01/18] GFS2: Fix remount argument parsing swhiteho
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From: swhiteho @ 2009-03-18 12:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,

So as the merge window draws closer, here is the current content of the
GFS2 git tree. The major item this time is patch 5 in the series. This
contians by far the majority of the changes, and the majority of those
changes are actually removal of code. The patch merges the lock_dlm
module (not the dlm itself, but GFS2's interface to the dlm) into
GFS2 itself. This means that a number of optimisations are then
possible in terms of merging strucutures resulting in a considerable
saving in memory.

Since that patch is so large (I'm afraid that it really doesn't make
any sense to split it up) its been in the -nmw git tree for the whole
period since the last merge window and has also been posted for review
on cluster-devel on a number of occasions before that. We've run a
number of tests on it as well in that period, so I believe that its
pretty stable now. It certainly makes the code a lot cleaner and
easier to follow in that area.

The remainder of the patches are mostly bug fixes, but there are one
or two other interesting features, those being:

 o GFS2 now supports the discard I/O requests for thin provisioning, etc
 o A new "demote a glock" interface is added to sysfs to help in
   testing GFS2
 o With a new mkfs.gfs2 which writes UUIDs, the UUID is now included
   in uevent messages (with older filesystems which don't have UUIDs,
   we just don't send that information)

The GFS2 tracing patches which I posted a little while back are not
included in this patch set. I think I can see what I need to do in
order to avoid patching blktrace now, so my plan is to look at those
patches again after this merge window, and when all the queued patches
for the tracing subsystem have been merged.

As always, please let us know if you spot any issues in the patches,

Steve.




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2009-03-18 12:23 [Cluster-devel] [GFS2] Pre-pull patch posting swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 01/18] GFS2: Fix remount argument parsing swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23   ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 02/18] GFS2: Bring back lvb-related stuff to lock_nolock to support quotas swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23     ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 03/18] GFS2: change gfs2_quota_scan into a shrinker swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23       ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 04/18] GFS2: Remove "double" locking in quota swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23         ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 05/18] GFS2: Merge lock_dlm module into GFS2 swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23           ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 06/18] GFS2: Remove unused field from glock swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23             ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 07/18] GFS2: Fix error path ref counting for root inode swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23               ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 08/18] GFS2: Fix deadlock on journal flush swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23                 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 09/18] GFS2: Support generation of discard requests swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23                   ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 10/18] GFS2: Expose UUID via sysfs/uevent swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23                     ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 11/18] GFS2: Add a "demote a glock" interface to sysfs swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23                       ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 12/18] GFS2: Fix alignment issue and tidy gfs2_bitfit swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23                         ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 13/18] GFS2: Support quota/noquota mount arguments swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23                           ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 14/18] GFS2: fix sparse warnings: constant is so big it is swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23                             ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 15/18] GFS2: fix sparse warning: Should it be static? swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23                               ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 16/18] GFS2: Pagecache usage optimization on GFS2 swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23                                 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 17/18] GFS2: Fix locking bug in failed shared to exclusive conversion swhiteho
2009-03-18 12:23                                   ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 18/18] GFS2: Clean up of glops.c swhiteho

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