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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:52:32 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Filesystems <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...il.com>,
Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] buffered write deadlock fix
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:31:37 +0100 (CET)
Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> wrote:
> The following set of patches attempt to fix the buffered write
> locking problems (and there are a couple of peripheral patches
> and cleanups there too).
>
> Patches against 2.6.20-rc6. I was hoping that 2.6.20-rc6-mm2 would
> be an easier diff with the fsaio patches gone, but the readahead
> rewrite clashes badly :(
Well fsaio is restored, but there's now considerable doubt over it due to
the recent febril febrility.
How bad is the clash with the readahead patches?
Clashes with git-block are likely, too.
Bugfixes come first, so I will drop readahead and fsaio and git-block to get
this work completed if needed - please work agaisnt mainline.
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