From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] : Spinning up disk is observed on standby paths until timeout, resulting in longer path restoration time. Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:56:21 -0800 Message-ID: <1235865381.10562.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1235144182.3349.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090220155221.GU16841@parisc-linux.org> <1235145795.9025.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090220161334.GV16841@parisc-linux.org> <1235147048.9025.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090220170431.GW16841@parisc-linux.org> <1235400748.3361.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090228212625.GR16891@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:38993 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753148AbZB1X40 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:56:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090228212625.GR16891@parisc-linux.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: "Rengarajan, Narayanan (STSD)" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" 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