From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: "Jayson R. King" <dev@jaysonking.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [10/24] vfs: Add no_nrwrite_index_update writeback control flag
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 10:12:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100525171222.GA3533@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BFC024A.9090600@jaysonking.com>
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:00:58PM -0500, Jayson R. King wrote:
> On 05/25/2010 11:52 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 07:12:08AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 03:28:06PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >>> 2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >>
> >> NACK. This has been shown to cause severe writeback regression for
> >> other filesystems and is beeing reverted in mianline.
> >
> > Ok, if I drop this one, I think I need to drop an ext4 patch as well,
> > I'll go figure that out and respin a -rc2 with this change in it.
>
> You'd have to drop the next two ext4 -stable patches to get a buildable
> kernel if you drop this one. The last of those ext4 patches is the one
> which fixes the deadlock from kernel bugzilla #12579.
I've now dropped those next two ext4 patches. If someone wants to get
this bug fixed for the .27 tree, please feel free to send me the
patches.
Personally, I doubt many people care about ext4 on the .27 kernel
release...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-25 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20100524223544.GA13721@kroah.com>
2010-05-24 22:28 ` [09/24] vfs: Remove the range_cont writeback mode Greg KH
2010-05-24 22:28 ` [10/24] vfs: Add no_nrwrite_index_update writeback control flag Greg KH
2010-05-25 11:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-25 16:52 ` Greg KH
2010-05-25 17:00 ` Jayson R. King
2010-05-25 17:12 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-05-26 0:49 ` Jayson R. King
2010-05-25 16:53 ` Jayson R. King
2010-05-25 16:58 ` Greg KH
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