RE: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v9

[Martin Knoblauch <spamtrap@knobisoft.de>]

--- Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 08:59 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> > --- Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 05:49 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Peter,
> > > > 
> > > >  any chance to get a rollup against 2.6.22-stable?
> > > > 
> > > >  The 2.6.23 series may not be usable for me due to the
> > > > nosharedcache changes for NFS (the new default will massively
> > > > disturb the user-space automounter).
> > > 
> > > I'll see what I can do, bit busy with other stuff atm, hopefully
> > > after
> > > the weekend.
> > > 
> > Hi Peter,
> > 
> >  any progress on a version against 2.6.22.5? I have seen the very
> > positive report from Jeffrey W. Baker and would really love to test
> > your patch. But as I said, anything newer than 2.6.22.x might not
> be an
> > option due to the NFS changes.
> 
> mindless port, seems to compile and boot on my test box ymmv.
> 
> I think .5 should not present anything other than trivial rejects if
> anything. But I'm not keeping -stable in my git remotes so I can't
> say
> for sure.

Hi Peter,

 thanks a lot. It applies to 2.6.22.5 almost cleanly, with just one
8-line offset in readahead.c.

 I will report testing-results separately.

Thanks
Martin

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