From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752988AbZIKOEx (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:04:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752109AbZIKOEv (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:04:51 -0400 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([93.163.65.50]:55087 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752489AbZIKOEv (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:04:51 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:04:54 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Jeff Moyer Cc: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: What's in linux-2.6-block.git for 2.6.32 Message-ID: <20090911140453.GG14984@kernel.dk> References: <20090911124106.GC14984@kernel.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 11 2009, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Jens Axboe writes: > > > Hi, > > > > This is just the core block bits, I have other branches pending. And a > > heads up that I had to rebase this branch today, something I haven't > > done during the .31 cycle. This was due to the history being really odd, > > with modified patches of for-2.6.32 patches being forwarded to mainline. > > So I though it would be better to clean this history and merge fixups. > > There was also a middle point that would break bisection. > > > > Nothing really earth shattering in here, nor are there really big > > changes for this cycle. > > > > - Some updates to CFQ to improve interactiveness. > > - Some cleanups and sanitization of the bio IO flags. > > - blk-iopoll, an experimental API for doing NAPI like polled completions > > for really fast devices. In testing this has shown to be faster for > > some cases, while slower for others. The included patch is just the > > core bits, no driver support is being merged yet. > > - Enable CPU IO completion by default. My testing has shown this to be > > faster, and independent testing by Intel confirms that as well. > > - A fix to only issue a block queue trace when we actually intend to > > queue. > > - A fix for splice to update mtime and atime on files. > > - A cleanup of the failfast bits and merge fixups for the same. > > Any particular reason you're holding off on the pktcdvd regression fix I > posted? No, I'll get it added. Sorry for the delay on that. -- Jens Axboe