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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Two fixups for the block IO merge
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:09:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301072954-sup-4222@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D8CBDAB.2010507@fusionio.com>

Excerpts from Jens Axboe's message of 2011-03-25 12:07:07 -0400:
> Hi Linus,
> 
> An embarassing bug made the block IO merge a bit less enjoyable for some
> people than it should have.
> 
> - The oops problem (with CFQ), or potential corruption (with noop) due
>   to a bad insertion type for some requests.
> 
> - A warning spew on virt_io using blk_stop_queue() inside it's callback.
> 
> Please pull these two fixes, so hopefully we can put this behind us.
> Thanks a lot to the people involved with fixing the first issue.
> 
>   git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git for-linus
> 
> Jens Axboe (2):
>       block: fix bug with inserting flush requests as sort/merge
>       block: fix issue with calling blk_stop_queue() from the request_fn handler

A quick stress test on this is going well on my box.  Before this pull
it would crash within 5 minutes.

-chris

      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-25 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-25 16:07 [GIT PULL] Two fixups for the block IO merge Jens Axboe
2011-03-25 17:09 ` Chris Mason [this message]

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