From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 1][PATCH 0/6] Filesystem AIO read/write Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 09:02:42 -0800 Message-ID: <20070104090242.44dd8165.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20061227153855.GA25898@in.ibm.com> <20061228082308.GA4476@in.ibm.com> <20070103141556.82db0e81.akpm@osdl.org> <20070104045621.GA8353@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org, drepper@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jakub@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, Jens Axboe Return-path: To: suparna@in.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <20070104045621.GA8353@in.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:26:21 +0530 Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:15:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:53:08 +0530 > > Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > > > > This patchset implements changes to make filesystem AIO read > > > and write asynchronous for the non O_DIRECT case. > > > > Unfortunately the unplugging changes in Jen's block tree have trashed these > > patches to a degree that I'm not confident in my repair attempts. So I'll > > drop the fasio patches from -mm. > > I took a quick look and the conflicts seem pretty minor to me, the unplugging > changes mostly touch nearby code. Well... the conflicts (both mechanical and conceptual) are such that a round of retesting is needed. > Please let know how you want this fixed up. > > >From what I can tell the comments in the unplug patches seem to say that > it needs more work and testing, so perhaps a separate fixup patch may be > a better idea rather than make the fsaio patchset dependent on this. Patches against next -mm would be appreciated, please. Sorry about that. I _assume_ Jens is targetting 2.6.21?