From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nbd-general@lists.sf.net,
Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] NBD fixes for caching and block device flags
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:43:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130212134349.579be89a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360685171-3792-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:06:08 +0100
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> The first two patches improve the behavior of NBD with respect to the host
> cache---respectively the server's cache and the client's. The first adds
> support for flushing the backing storage, so that NBD is safe against
> power losses. The second properly syncs and cleans the client's page
> cache when an NBD device is disconnected from the server.
>
> The third reports read-only devices properly in sysfs.
>
> Ok for 3.9? I saw the last NBD patches were applied by Andrew Morton,
> so I'm CCing him; Paul, please ack them if they are okay.
I grabbed these and will await Paul's feedback, and a bit more
changelog detail for [1/3], please.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-12 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-12 16:06 [PATCH 0/3] NBD fixes for caching and block device flags Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] nbd: support FLUSH requests Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 17:37 ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-12 18:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 21:32 ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-13 0:03 ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-13 13:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-13 15:55 ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-13 16:02 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-13 17:35 ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-13 0:00 ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-12 22:07 ` Paul Clements
2013-02-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] nbd: fsync and kill block device on shutdown Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 21:41 ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-13 13:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 22:15 ` Paul Clements
2013-02-12 16:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] nbd: show read-only state in sysfs Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-12 22:16 ` Paul Clements
2013-02-12 21:43 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-02-13 17:14 ` [Nbd] [PATCH 0/3] NBD fixes for caching and block device flags Wouter Verhelst
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20130212134349.579be89a.akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--to=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=Paul.Clements@steeleye.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=nbd-general@lists.sf.net \
--cc=pbonzini@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox