From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752883AbaFCLCu (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2014 07:02:50 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:47065 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751740AbaFCLCt (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2014 07:02:49 -0400 From: Steven Whitehouse To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com Subject: GFS2: Pre-pull patch posting (merge window) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 12:02:27 +0100 Message-Id: <1401793353-1469-1-git-send-email-swhiteho@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, This must be about the smallest merge window patch set ever for GFS2. It is probably also the first one without a single patch from me. That is down to a combination of factors, and I have some things in the works that are not quite ready yet, that I hope to put in next time around. Returning to what is here this time... we have 3 patches which fix various warnings. Two are bug fixes (for quotas and also a rare recovery race condition). The final patch, from Ben Marzinski, is an important change in the freeze code which has been in progress for some time. This removes the need to take and drop the transaction lock for every single transaction, when the only time it was used, was at file system freeze time. Ben's patch integrates the freeze operation into the journal flush code as an alternative with lower overheads and also lands up resolving some difficult to fix races at the same time, Steve.