From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751968Ab0FHAL3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2010 20:11:29 -0400 Received: from bld-mail16.adl2.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.101]:50266 "EHLO mail.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751238Ab0FHAL2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2010 20:11:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:11:15 +1000 From: Dave Chinner To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] writeback: tracing and fixes V3. Message-ID: <20100608001115.GB6965@dastard> References: <1275609328-12514-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <20100604074938.GB4448@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100604074938.GB4448@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 03:49:38AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Not sure what the rules for new tracepoints are, but in addition to the > fixes I'd really love to see the tracepoints in 2.6.35. Personally I think they are just as important (or even more important) than the bug fixes because we seem to break this code regularly because nobody can clearly see what the internals are doing to verify their change is working correctly. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com