From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754681AbXEAIC3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:02:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754692AbXEAIC3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:02:29 -0400 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([80.160.20.94]:5989 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754681AbXEAIC1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 04:02:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 10:01:51 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Neil Brown Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Zan Lynx , Adrian Bunk , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [-mm patch] i386: enable 4k stacks by default Message-ID: <20070501080151.GS21015@kernel.dk> References: <20070428191927.GN3468@stusta.de> <1177795118.7828.6.camel@localhost> <17973.44824.631204.926723@notabene.brown> <20070430085916.GA31397@infradead.org> <20070430113044.GJ21015@kernel.dk> <17974.31415.121135.794681@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17974.31415.121135.794681@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 01 2007, Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday April 30, jens.axboe@oracle.com wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 30 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:55:52PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > > > > On Saturday April 28, zlynx@acm.org wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 21:19 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > 4k stacks have become a well-tested feature used fore a long time in > > > > > > Fedora and even in RHEL 4. > > > > > > > > > > So has anyone fixed the bugs involving ext3 and LVM snapshots on top of > > > > > DM mirror? > > > > > > > > Well -mm has a patch which makes stacked block devices much less of an > > > > issue, but this hasn't made it -linus yet - I think the dm developer > > > > isn't happy that dm works properly with it. > > > > > > I get a little tired about this objection. If the particular dm code > > > was racy before and this can in theory make it worse it's their problem, > > > and putting in perfectly fine code will give them an incentive to > > > fix their year old race. > > > > Agree, Neil would you mind if I merged the patch? > > I am perfectly happy with this patch being merged - yes. Ok, queued for inclusion. -- Jens Axboe