[Cluster-devel] [PATCH] GFS: update gfs-kernel HEAD to 2.6.20 (please review)

[Cluster-devel] [PATCH] GFS: update gfs-kernel HEAD to 2.6.20 (please review)

[Robert Peterson]

Hi Cluster Developers,

Attached is a patch for HEAD that allows it to compile and run on an
upstream kernel.  Currently, I'm using Linus' 2.6.20-rc7 kernel from git.
The biggest changes are to (1) ops_file.c regarding upstream changes to 
vfs's
aio operations, and (2) glock.c regarding upstream changes to how
workqueues work.  It also contains a couple little cleanups. 
Please review and send me comments.

Special note about the aio changes to ops_file.c:  Wendy Cheng added
some code for AIO a while back, and this patch deviates from that code
a little bit.  Namely, there was a place in function do_read_buf where the
aio path was waiting for async io to complete, and I took that out.  Let 
me know
if you think this needs to go back in.

I'd also like to hear your opinions on if/when we should make HEAD deviate
from RHEL5 and start tracking the upstream kernel rather than the RHEL5
kernel.

Regards,

Bob Peterson
Red Hat Cluster Suite

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[Cluster-devel] [PATCH] GFS: update gfs-kernel HEAD to 2.6.20 (please review)

[David Teigland]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:31:00AM -0600, Robert Peterson wrote:
> I'd also like to hear your opinions on if/when we should make HEAD deviate
> from RHEL5 and start tracking the upstream kernel rather than the RHEL5

Lacking the porting that you're doing is the only reason HEAD kernel bits
don't match the latest upstream.  So, as soon as your patch is done and
works, check it in.

Dave