Re: [PATCH 00/18] writeback fixes and cleanups for 2.6.40 (v3)

Wu Fengguang
2011-05-23T09:28:42Z

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:07:39PM +0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Wu, Andrew,
>
> what's the plan for these for 2.6.40? We'll need to make some progress
> in this area, and even if we can't get everything it we should make sure
> to at least include the updated versions of those in -mm. But even
> some of the later ones are pretty low risk.

Yes, except for patch 14 which does not include external behavior
changes besides the good full write chunk size for large files, the
patches not in -mm are pretty trivial ones.

Aside from my simple tests, Alex also helped going through the LKP
tests with the patchset and find no writeback regressions.

Thanks,
Fengguang