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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Subject: Re: [EXT4 set 5][PATCH 1/1] expand inode i_extra_isize to support features in larger inode
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:43:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184399015.5284.34.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070713214746.GH23255@mami.zabbo.net>

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 14:47 -0700, Zach Brown wrote:
> > I fear the consequences of this change :(
> 
> I love it.  In the past I've lost time by working with patches which
> didn't quite realize that ext3 holds a transaction open during
> ->direct_IO.
> 
> > Oh well, please keep it alive, maybe beat on it a bit, resend it
> > later on?
> 
> I can test the patch to make sure that it catches mistakes I've made in
> the past. 

That would be much appreciated.

>  Peter, do you have any interest in seeing how far we can get
> at tracking lock_page()?  I'm not holding my breath, but any little bit
> would probably help.

Yeah I'm going to try that one next.. 


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-14  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-01  7:38 [EXT4 set 5][PATCH 1/1] expand inode i_extra_isize to support features in larger inode Mingming Cao
2007-07-10 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-11 12:10   ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-11 17:34     ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-11 19:24       ` Kalpak Shah
2007-07-12 11:22   ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-07-12 12:14   ` Kalpak Shah
2007-07-13  9:05   ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13 13:33     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-13 15:43       ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-13 19:12       ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13 21:47         ` Zach Brown
2007-07-14  7:43           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-07-15 10:21           ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-15 13:02           ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-15 13:14             ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-15 18:11             ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-15 19:21               ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-15 19:59                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-15 20:13                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-13 16:12     ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-16 23:52     ` Mingming Cao
2007-07-17  0:06       ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-17  0:24         ` Mingming Cao

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