linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] block updates for 2.6.30-rc1

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Date:	Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:49:24 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gentuu@...il.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] block updates for 2.6.30-rc1

On Tue, Apr 07 2009, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
> 2009/4/7 Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>:
> > Hi Linus,
> >
> > This is the collected set of small updates in the block area, as well as
> > the CFQ update you tested yesterday. It's essentially the same, but
> > allows for a bit more queuing for a solitary IO issuer. If it ends up
> > interferring too much with new IO, I'll augment that check with a time
> > based one as well. Looks good here, though.
> >
> > There's also a fix for a long standing CFQ problem that caused slowdowns
> > with CFQ on streamed IO due to CFQ being too eager to restart IO
> > queuing.
> >
> >  git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git for-linus
> >
> 
> Hi Jens
> 
> I sent you a fix for loop device.
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/15763/

I missed that the thread had the loop fix as well. I've included it now,
looks fine to me. Linus, the new diffstat is now:

 Dumentation/blockdev/00-INDEX   |    2 
 Documentation/blockdev/mflash.txt |   84 ++
 block/blk-core.c                  |   15 
 block/blk-merge.c                 |   29 
 block/blk-sysfs.c                 |    4 
 block/blk.h                       |   14 
 block/cfq-iosched.c               |  202 +++---
 block/elevator.c                  |   42 -
 drivers/block/Kconfig             |   17 
 drivers/block/Makefile            |    1 
 drivers/block/cciss.c             |  117 +++
 drivers/block/cciss.h             |    2 
 drivers/block/cciss_cmd.h         |   23 
 drivers/block/loop.c              |    7 
 drivers/block/mg_disk.c           | 1005 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/blkdev.h            |    2 
 include/linux/elevator.h          |    1 
 include/linux/mg_disk.h           |  206 ++++++
 18 files changed, 1624 insertions(+), 149 deletions(-)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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