linux-kernel - Re: On current git head webservers stopped working

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Date:	Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:09:58 +0200
From:	Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
CC:	linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: On current git head webservers stopped working

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13 2007, Gabriel C wrote:
>   
>> Jens Axboe wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, Jul 13 2007, Gabriel C wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hello ,
>>>>
>>>> While doing some tests with 2.6.22-git2 ( at the time head
>>>> 4eb6bf6bfb580afaf1e1a1d30cba17a078530cf4 ) all my webservers stopped
>>>> working.
>>>> I can't get any file using wget or whatever else , everything hangs
>>>> after 1% forever.
>>>>
>>>> I bisected this and here the result:
>>>>
>>>> 534f2aaa6ab07cd71164180bc958a7dcde41db11 is first bad commit
>>>> commit 534f2aaa6ab07cd71164180bc958a7dcde41db11
>>>> Author: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
>>>> Date:   Fri Jun 1 14:52:37 2007 +0200
>>>>
>>>>     sys_sendfile: switch to using ->splice_read, if available
>>>>
>>>>     This patch makes sendfile prefer to use ->splice_read(), if it's
>>>>     available in the file_operations structure.
>>>>
>>>>     Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
>>>>
>>>> :040000 040000 b19013793692eee0f632b3703dca0bd40cea753f
>>>> ed50576c0d3f0d3ce9f1a2ac9336d1164b45f63f M      fs
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Does this work?
>>>   
>>>       
>> Yes , it does. Thx :)
>>     
>
> Great, I'll polish it a bit and get it upstream asap. Thanks for the
> report and quick test feedback!
>
>   

You are welcome :)

If you want me to test the final version of this patch before you push
it upstream just ping me.



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