From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757153Ab3BLVnw (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:43:52 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:54616 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752146Ab3BLVnv (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:43:51 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:43:49 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nbd-general@lists.sf.net, Paul Clements Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] NBD fixes for caching and block device flags Message-Id: <20130212134349.579be89a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1360685171-3792-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> References: <1360685171-3792-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:06:08 +0100 Paolo Bonzini 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.