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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:06:18 +0000
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On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:39:27 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800
> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> > Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time
> > and I shall then drop the lot.  So please don't flub them.
> > 
> > I'll then do a rc1-mm2 without them.
> 
> hm, this is looking like a lot of work for not much gain.  Rafael, are
> you able to do a quick chop and tell us whether these:

The md one and the long history of reports about parallel I/O causing
problems sounds a lot more like the kmap stuff you were worried about
Andrew. I'd be very intereste dto know if it happens on x86_32 built with
a standard memory split and no highmem....