Re: [PATCH 1/1] : Spinning up disk is observed on standby paths until timeout, resulting in longer path restoration time.

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 14:26 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:52:28AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 11:48 +0000, Rengarajan, Narayanan (STSD) wrote:
> > > If this patch is valid , when can we expect this on mainstream
> > > kernel . I can help testing this patch when included in the kernel.
> > 
> > If you could test it and report that it works, probably fairly
> > immediately.
> 
> Narayanan reported that the patch I sent worked, but it wasn't in the push
> to Linus you just sent.  I'm not quite sure whether 'fairly immediately'
> meant 'for 2.6.29' or 'for 2.6.30', so I don't know whether this was an
> oversight or an intentional omission.  In case it was the former, I'm
> alerting you to it ;-)

It was intentional ... I've been trying to incubate rc-fixes in the next
tree for a few days (which means I can't add to the rc-fixes tree after
about Monday if I want to send it to Linus on Friday/Saturday), so it
will be in the next push.

James