From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: Large amount of scsi-sgpool objects Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 00:48:34 +0100 Message-ID: <20090303234834.GA13389@elte.hu> References: <49ACF8FE.2020904@panasas.com> <1236093718.3263.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1236097526.3263.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090303192212.GA20705@elte.hu> <1236115544.15993.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090303214454.GA8288@elte.hu> <1236119990.24019.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090303230323.GA21644@elte.hu> <49ADBE29.4040706@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:46145 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754714AbZCCXsv (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2009 18:48:51 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49ADBE29.4040706@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Stefan Richter Cc: James Bottomley , Jan Engelhardt , Boaz Harrosh , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton * Stefan Richter wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i picked up a v1 patch from the SCSI list that > > i reported and which patch was sent to me. I did that in the > > hope to fix a serious lockup bug that is still unfixed in the > > upstream kernel > > Perhaps you could avoid putting such fixes into published > merge branches. Yeah, these commits are in none of the topic branches that are the git base of development, they are all already in a separate branch named "tip:out-of-tree". That separate branch carries assorted fixlets for various bugs we trigger in -tip qa. It never goes upstream-wards, obviously. It's a bit like the fixlets portion of -mm. Ingo