From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
npiggin@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] Fix page_mkwrite() for blocksize < pagesize (version 3)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:47:53 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090615181753.GA26615@skywalker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245088797-29533-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 07:59:47PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>
> patches below are an attempt to solve problems filesystems have with
> page_mkwrite() when blocksize < pagesize (see the changelog of the second patch
> for details).
>
> Could someone please review them so that they can get merged - especially the
> generic VFS/MM part? It fixes observed problems (WARN_ON triggers) for ext4 and
> makes ext2/ext3 behave more nicely (mmapped write getting page fault instead
> of silently discarding data).
Will you be able to send it as two series.
a) One that fix the blocksize < page size bug
b) making ext2/3 mmaped write give better allocation pattern.
Doing that will make sure (a) can go in this merge window. There are
other ext4 fixes waiting for (a) to be merged in.
>
> The series is against Linus's tree from today. The differences against previous
> version are one bugfix in ext3 delalloc implementation... Please test and review.
> Thanks.
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-15 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-15 17:59 [PATCH 0/10] Fix page_mkwrite() for blocksize < pagesize (version 3) Jan Kara
2009-06-15 17:59 ` [PATCH 01/11] ext3: Get rid of extenddisksize parameter of ext3_get_blocks_handle() Jan Kara
2009-06-17 10:28 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-17 11:49 ` Jan Kara
2009-06-15 17:59 ` [PATCH 02/11] vfs: Add better VFS support for page_mkwrite when blocksize < pagesize Jan Kara
2009-06-25 16:17 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-25 16:43 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-25 17:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-26 8:42 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-30 17:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-02 7:22 ` Nick Piggin
2009-07-04 15:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-06 9:08 ` Nick Piggin
2009-07-06 10:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-06 11:49 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-26 12:21 ` Jan Kara
2009-06-26 12:55 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-26 16:08 ` Jan Kara
2009-06-29 5:54 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 17:59 ` [PATCH 03/11] ext2: Allocate space for mmaped file on page fault Jan Kara
2009-06-15 17:59 ` [PATCH 04/11] ext4: Make sure blocks are properly allocated under mmaped page even when blocksize < pagesize Jan Kara
2009-06-15 17:59 ` [PATCH 05/11] ext3: Allocate space for mmaped file on page fault Jan Kara
2009-06-15 17:59 ` [PATCH 06/11] vfs: Implement generic per-cpu counters for delayed allocation Jan Kara
2009-06-15 17:59 ` [PATCH 07/11] vfs: Unmap underlying metadata of new data buffers only when buffer is mapped Jan Kara
2009-06-17 10:35 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-17 12:05 ` Jan Kara
2009-06-17 13:53 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-18 12:00 ` Theodore Tso
2009-06-18 11:51 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2009-06-15 17:59 ` [PATCH 08/11] fs: Don't clear dirty bits in block_write_full_page() Jan Kara
2009-06-15 17:59 ` [PATCH 09/11] vfs: Export wakeup_pdflush Jan Kara
2009-06-15 17:59 ` [PATCH 10/11] ext3: Implement delayed allocation on page_mkwrite time Jan Kara
2009-06-15 18:02 ` [PATCH 0/10] Fix page_mkwrite() for blocksize < pagesize (version 3) Jan Kara
2009-06-15 18:17 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2009-06-16 10:28 ` Jan Kara
2009-06-16 14:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-16 14:42 ` Jan Kara
2009-06-30 17:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-01 10:29 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
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