From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] writeback: tracing and fixes V3.
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 04:03:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100608080324.GA3119@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100608001115.GB6965@dastard>
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 10:11:15AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> 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.
Given that Linus is pretty strict about only taking regression fixes
I'd rather get the regression fix in and miss out on the tracing until
the next merge window then missing out on everything.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-08 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-03 23:55 [PATCH 0/6] writeback: tracing and fixes V3 Dave Chinner
2010-06-03 23:55 ` [PATCH 1/6] writeback: initial tracing support Dave Chinner
2010-06-04 1:10 ` Li Zefan
2010-06-04 1:24 ` Dave Chinner
2010-06-03 23:55 ` [PATCH 2/6] writeback: Add tracing to balance_dirty_pages Dave Chinner
2010-06-03 23:55 ` [PATCH 3/6] writeback: Add tracing to write_cache_pages Dave Chinner
2010-06-04 7:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-03 23:55 ` [PATCH 4/6] writeback: pay attention to wbc->nr_to_write in write_cache_pages Dave Chinner
2010-06-04 7:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-03 23:55 ` [PATCH 5/6] xfs: remove nr_to_write writeback windup Dave Chinner
2010-06-03 23:55 ` [PATCH 6/6] writeback: limit write_cache_pages integrity scanning to current EOF Dave Chinner
2010-06-04 7:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-04 7:56 ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-04 7:49 ` [PATCH 0/6] writeback: tracing and fixes V3 Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-08 0:11 ` Dave Chinner
2010-06-08 8:03 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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