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

Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-08T07:31:29Z

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.