Re: [PATCH 2/3] xfs: don't use ioends for direct write completions

Dave Chinner
2016-02-08T09:17:16Z

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 08:31:21AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 05:17:31PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Right now this series is in a stable branch in the XFS tree:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs.git xfs-dio-fix-4.6
> >
> > If you want to push it through some other tree, please let me know
> > when/where it is committed so I can rebuild the XFS for-next branch
> > appropriately from a stable commit/branch...
>
> That's how I think it should be handled. This would also allow the
> ext4 and ocfs2 maintainers to depend on the stable branch to clean
> up their direct I/O completion handling in this merge window if they
> want to.

I can't tell if you are saying what I've done is fine if the
xfs-dio-fix-4.6 branch is stable (so others can pull it) or whether
it should be in some other tree. Can you clarify, Christoph?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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