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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: interims VFS queue
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:18:29 +0530
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:09:36 -0700, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:30:17 -0400
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > As discussed at KS I've collected up the VFS patches from 3 month worth
> > of linux-fsdevel archives.
> 
> vfs things..
> 
> 1: What happened with Andi's "dio: optimize cache misses in the
>    submission path"?  (Against which I have checkpatch fixes and
>    #include linux/prefetch.h, btw)
> 
> 2: I'm still sitting on Andy Whitcroft's "readlinkat: ensure we
>    return ENOENT for the empty pathname for normal lookups" and its
>    fixup.  I'd marked this as needed-in-3.1.  Help.


I had discussed this with Al Viro. He mentioned that he wanted to do it
differently. 
 
-aneesh