linux-kernel - Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

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Message-ID: <20061215220618.06f1873c@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:06:18 +0000
From:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Jurriaan <thunder7@...all.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Subject: Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:39:27 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800
> Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> wrote:
> 
> > Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time
> > and I shall then drop the lot.  So please don't flub them.
> > 
> > I'll then do a rc1-mm2 without them.
> 
> hm, this is looking like a lot of work for not much gain.  Rafael, are
> you able to do a quick chop and tell us whether these:

The md one and the long history of reports about parallel I/O causing
problems sounds a lot more like the kmap stuff you were worried about
Andrew. I'd be very intereste dto know if it happens on x86_32 built with
a standard memory split and no highmem....
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