linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans

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Date:	Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:42:01 -0700
From:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19 -mm merge plans

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 13:54 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

Sorry, I didn't get back to this earlier. I have been chasing
one more ext2 & ext3 regression (this time with random reads).
Anyway ..

> add-address_space_operationsbatch_write.patch
> add-address_space_operationsbatch_write-fix.patch
> pass-io-size-to-batch_write-address-space-operation.patch
> 
>  These add a new address_space operation.  For reiser4, with potential for
>  use by other filesystems.
> 
>  Problem is, 2.6.18 has a significant writev() performace regression on NFS
>  and probably on other filesystems.  Because 2.6.18 does
>  prepare_write/commit_write for each iovec segment.  We want to go back to
>  copying mulitple iovec segments within a single prepare_write/commit_write.
> 
>  Plus there's still the possible deadlock in our standard write() function
>  (thw thing which fault_in_pages_readable() tries to prevent).
> 
>  All of this should be fixed.  


What needs to be fixed here ?

Thanks,
Badari

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