From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id pAL0kDpd191666 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:46:13 -0600 Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 1A67156F38F for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:46:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.145]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id IGEBkIiT1FNv0TSd for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:46:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:46:08 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] XFS update for 3.0-stable Message-ID: <20111121004608.GE2386@dastard> References: <20111119181336.964593075@bombadil.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111119181336.964593075@bombadil.infradead.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 01:13:36PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This is the series of XFS fixes from current mainline which is important > enough for 3.0-stable. All but the first three would also be needed > for 3.1-stable, but given the limited resources I plan to concentrate > on 3.0-stable. If anyone wants to take care for 3.1 by building a kernel > with the remaining patches and run QA on them you are more welcome to > help out with that tree. > > Note that while the description of > > xfs: don't serialise direct IO reads on page cache checks > > doesn't mention that is is a regression fix we later noticed that a > large part of the speedups wasn't in fact new, but fixed a performance > regression introduced in Linux 2.6.38 with commit: > > xfs: introduce xfs_rw_lock() helpers for locking the inode The series of patches for 3.0 looks good. It passes my tests here. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs