From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Whitehouse Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 12:02:27 +0100 Subject: [Cluster-devel] GFS2: Pre-pull patch posting (merge window) Message-ID: <1401793353-1469-1-git-send-email-swhiteho@redhat.com> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, This must be about the smallest merge window patch set ever for GFS2. It is probably also the first one without a single patch from me. That is down to a combination of factors, and I have some things in the works that are not quite ready yet, that I hope to put in next time around. Returning to what is here this time... we have 3 patches which fix various warnings. Two are bug fixes (for quotas and also a rare recovery race condition). The final patch, from Ben Marzinski, is an important change in the freeze code which has been in progress for some time. This removes the need to take and drop the transaction lock for every single transaction, when the only time it was used, was at file system freeze time. Ben's patch integrates the freeze operation into the journal flush code as an alternative with lower overheads and also lands up resolving some difficult to fix races at the same time, Steve.