From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933122AbXCFJGq (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 04:06:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933149AbXCFJGp (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 04:06:45 -0500 Received: from smtp.ono.com ([62.42.230.12]:57971 "EHLO resmaa06.ono.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933122AbXCFJGh (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 04:06:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:06:23 +0100 From: "J.A. =?UTF-8?B?TWFnYWxsw7Nu?=" To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm2 Message-ID: <20070306100623.770b9dc9@werewolf-wl> In-Reply-To: <20070306004408.d3f6434d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070306004408.d3f6434d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.0cvs15 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 00:44:08 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Temporarily at > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc2-mm2/ > Does this include a fix for the NFS problem ? BTW, I have in my kernel a patch like this below, isn't it needed ? Original thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=117189051227292&w=2 --- a/block/ll_rw_blk.c +++ b/block/ll_rw_blk.c @@ -2919,14 +2919,14 @@ static int __make_request(request_queue_ */ blk_queue_bounce(q, &bio); + spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock); /* * Check if we can merge with the plugged list before grabbing * any locks. */ if (!check_plug_merge(q, ioc, bio)) - goto out; + goto out_unlock; - spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock); el_ret = elv_merge(q, &req, bio); if (el_ret == ELEVATOR_BACK_MERGE) { if (bio_attempt_back_merge(q, req, bio)) { @@ -2984,7 +2984,6 @@ out_unlock: list_add_tail(&req->queuelist, &ioc->plugged_list); } -out: return 0; end_io_eopnotsupp: -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: \ It's better when it's free Mandriva Linux release 2007.1 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.20-jam01 (gcc 4.1.2 20070302 (prerelease) (4.1.2-1mdv2007.1)) #2 SMP PREEMPT