linux-ext4 - Re: ext4 patches for 2.6.37-rc1?

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Date:	Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:41:56 +0200
From:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...glemail.com>
To:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 patches for 2.6.37-rc1?

Hi Ted,

thanks for your explanations.

Just saw your GIT-pull request on LKML [1] and compiling now
linux-next (next-20101028) [2] which includes ext4.
Linus pulled to upstream, so 2.6.36-git11 will have the ext4-patches :-).

Thanks all for their work on ext4!

Kind Regards,
- Sedat -

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/28/12
[2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/27/509

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:36:46PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering if Ted will send ext4 patches within the open
>> merge-window for 2.6.37-rc1.
>
> Yes, I am planning on sending patches to Linus.
>
> It's a bit late because I've been crazy busy this past few weeks.
>
>> If you plan to send to Linus, can you give a short overview what
>> endusers will expect?
>
> lazy inode table init, improved scalability for buffered writeback (3x
> throughput improvement when writing large files in parallel on 48 and
> 192 threads on a 48-core machine), and a bunch of cleanups and bug
> fixes.
>
>> BTW, in which of the GIT trees ([1], [2]) is the ext4 development
>> actually happening?
>>
>> [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git;a=summary
>> [2] http://repo.or.cz/w/ext4-patch-queue.git
>
> Primary development happens in [2], and then it gets mirrored to [1]
> periodically.
>
>                                                - Ted
>
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