From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756685Ab2K3KSR (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:18:17 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1862 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752269Ab2K3KSP (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:18:15 -0500 From: Steven Whitehouse To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com Subject: GFS2: Pre-pull patch posting (merge window) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:52:05 +0000 Message-Id: <1354269141-3311-1-git-send-email-swhiteho@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, So yes, this is a bit early, but the tree seems to have settled down now, and I'd like to hold off any further feature patches until the subsequent merge window at this stage. The main feature this time is the new Orlov allocator and the patches leading up to it which allow us to allocate new inodes from their own allocation context, rather than borrowing that of their parent directory. It is this change which then allows us to choose a different location for subdirectories when required. This works exactly as per the ext3 implementation from the users point of view. In addition to that, we've got a speed up in gfs2_rbm_from_block() from Bob Peterson, three locking related improvements from Dave Teigland plus a selection of smaller bug fixes and clean ups. Steve.