Re: deferred IO

[Christian Schoenebeck <cuse@users.sourceforge.net>]

Es geschah am Friday 06 June 2008 als Jaya Kumar schrieb:
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Christian Schoenebeck
>
> <cuse@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > Es geschah am Friday 06 June 2008 als Jaya Kumar schrieb:
> >> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Christian Schoenebeck
> >>
> >> <cuse@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >> > Hi!
> >> >
> >> > Is it possible that the deferred IO implementation in kernel 2.6.22 is
> >> > buggy?
> >>
> >> Yes, that's possible. There was a key bug fixed in 2.6.25. You'll
> >> probably want at least the following commit:
> >>
> >> commit        de7c6d15e354bc94a846f03749819768c331280a
> >> fbdev: defio and Metronomefb
> >
> > Very good, thanks a lot!
> > Is there an easy way to retrieve that specific patch?
>
> I think git cherry-pick should be possible. Alternatively, I think you
> can download just the fb_defio.c changes from:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h
>=de7c6d15e354bc94a846f03749819768c331280a
>
> and apply it that way. Hope that helps.

That did it! Works like a charme now!

Thanks Jaya!

CU
Christian

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