Re: [PATCH 00/27] patch queue for Linux 3.1

Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-30T06:50:26Z

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 04:36:58PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:01:09AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > This is my current patch queue for Linux 3.1. It includes the previously
> > all previously sent patches I'm planning for Linux 3.1 inclusion through
> > the XFS tree and a few new ones. The most important new bits is a cleanup
> > of the structures describing the dir2 on-disk format, which got a bit
> > more urgent due to more recent gcc versions complaining about the hacks
> > used in the current version.
> >
> > The sync lifelock fix is included only in a minimal version that removes
> > the data syncs. I plan to sort out the iocount waiting via the i_alloc_sem
> > removal patches that have been sent for inclusion in the VFS tree. I'll
> > cc the XFS list on the updated version with XFS chances.
>
> With this series I'm seeing test 180 fail relatively frequently with
> 1k block size filesystem. I shall try to debug this given the other
> reports of 180 failing that have recently come to light...

Interesting. I've not seen 180 fail any time recently, with either 4k
of 512 byte block size filesystems.