From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Various cleanups and minor fixes Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:58:09 +0100 Message-ID: <4F698A11.7020505@redhat.com> References: <1332262456-5109-1-git-send-email-Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> <20120321081130.239d577a@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120321081130.239d577a@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 03/20/12 22:11, NeilBrown wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:54:05 +0100 Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com wrote: > >> From: Jes Sorensen >> This patch set implements a number of smaller cleanups, as well as >> fixing a couple of cases where we don't zero out the full buffer we >> just obtained via malloc. > > All applied and push out - thanks. There were a few conflict which some > stuff I was working on, but nothing serious. Excellent, thanks! >> The most controversial is probably patch 06 which caches the device >> block size for aligned read/writes in super1.c to avoid calling the >> ioctl() on each write. > > Yeah, it's a bit ugly, but seems reasonable. Yeah, I was trying to find the cleanest way of doing it. I am contemplating whether it makes sense to try and push this up the stack, but I figured starting out small like this would be better. > I think it might be nearly time for 3.2.4. Do you have any thoughts about > that? I think it would be a good time - I have found it relatively quiet on the bug report front since the 3.2.3 update, so jumping to 3.2.4 sounds good. Cheers, Jes