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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 14:29:31 +0800 From: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com> To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: A warning from 3.6+ with bigalloc and delalloc when running xfstest On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 01:48:20AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 10:59:34PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote: > > > > This warning is printed when test case #127 and #225 are being run > > with bigalloc and delalloc. You could use the following commands to > > reproduce it using xfstest. > > Ah, I see I misunderstood you; I thought you had said that the tests > had failed, I didn't realize what what you had meant was that they > were trigging a WARN_ON. > > I believe this warning is related to the general class of bugs > surrounding bigalloc and delalloc, once we get the extent status tree > in mainline, I'm hoping we will be able to use it to significantly > improve how we handle bigalloc's delalloc handling. > > Here are the results I have from running my tests, as well as the > results from right after the previous merge window for comparison.... Sorry for my bad expression. :-( OK, I see. Thanks for the result. It is very useful for me to understand whether or not my patches break something up. Regards, Zheng -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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