From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 12:28:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 12:27:44 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:18542 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 12:27:36 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:28:25 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: jeremy@classic.engr.sgi.com Subject: blkdev-pagecache-11 Message-ID: <20010805182825.H21840@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010802150529.A24436@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010802150529.A24436@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 03:05:29PM +0200 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This new update 1) runs get_super after fsync_dev in invalidate_device to avoid sleeping before the lock_super in case do_sync == 1, 2) replaces the softblocksize bugcheck in ll_rw_block with an hardblocksize bugcheck, now the softblocksize is a purerly filesystem thing, completly unrelated to the other ways of doing I/O (this fixes false positives of such bugcheck after a mount of a 4k fs). ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.4/2.4.8pre4/blkdev-pagecache-10 as usual you must apply the o_direct patch first (the o_direct patch has no updates and it stays at the -11 revision): ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.4/2.4.8pre4/o_direct-11 Andrea