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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:59:54 +0200 From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] block/io bits for 2.6.35-rc On 2010-06-10 18:40, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 06:25:17PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: >> I agree, it's late and it makes me nervous too. I had them cook for >> a day, didn't see any problems. And Christoph would not send it in >> unless it passes at least xfs qa, which is what found the problems >> last time (the ones we reverted). >> >> It's fixing a regression where umount takes a LONG time if you have >> a lot of dirty inodes, since it basically degenerates to a data >> integrity writeback instead of a simple WB_SYNC_NONE. If it wasn't >> fixing a nasty regression (the distros are all wanting a real fix >> for this, it's a user problem), I would not be submitting this code >> at this point in time. > > Maybe give it a bit more beating in linux-next and send it off to Linus > once he's back from his vacation? We can do that. Linus, I'll split split off the writeback parts and send you a new pull request. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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