From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266069AbUGJBFh (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:05:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266067AbUGJBFh (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:05:37 -0400 Received: from delerium.kernelslacker.org ([81.187.208.145]:15516 "EHLO delerium.codemonkey.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266069AbUGJBF1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:05:27 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 02:04:29 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: Con Kolivas Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch Message-ID: <20040710010429.GB6386@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Con Kolivas , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven References: <20040709182638.GA11310@elte.hu> <40EF3FAA.5000907@kolivas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40EF3FAA.5000907@kolivas.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 11:00:26AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.7-bk20-H2 > Looks nice. > > I think you may have mixed up your trees. I think this change is the cfq > bad allocation fix which I dont think is part of your voluntary > preemption patch: > > --- linux/drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c.orig It was this patch that found this bug 8-) Without voluntary-preempt it had been lying there unexposed for a while. It's sort of must-have if you use this patch, so I guess that's why Ingo rolled it in until mainline gets the same fix. Dave