From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] writeback: tracing and fixes V3. Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:11:15 +1000 Message-ID: <20100608001115.GB6965@dastard> References: <1275609328-12514-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <20100604074938.GB4448@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from bld-mail16.adl2.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.101]:50266 "EHLO mail.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751238Ab0FHAL2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2010 20:11:28 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100604074938.GB4448@infradead.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 03:49:38AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Not sure what the rules for new tracepoints are, but in addition to the > fixes I'd really love to see the tracepoints in 2.6.35. Personally I think they are just as important (or even more important) than the bug fixes because we seem to break this code regularly because nobody can clearly see what the internals are doing to verify their change is working correctly. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com