linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] block/io bits for 2.6.35-rc

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Message-ID: <4C28B2BB.1090107@teksavvy.com>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:33:31 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>
To:	Brian Bloniarz <bmb@...enacr.com>
CC:	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] block/io bits for 2.6.35-rc

On 28/06/10 10:05 AM, Brian Bloniarz wrote:
> On 06/28/2010 09:51 AM, Mark Lord wrote:
..
>> I found these two:
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=e913fc825dc685a444cb4c1d0f9d32f372f5986
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=30fd1e551a730d942e91109762c942786be0ef7c
>>
>>
>> But they don't apply cleanly to 2.6.34.
>>
>> Anyone?
>
> Don't use those, they have bugs and have since been reverted.
>
> Links to the patch series that Jens mentions are below. I doubt they
> apply cleanly to older kernels. Somebody's probably going to need to
> take a crack at backporting them eventually (I could try, even), but
> I don't know anybody has yet.
>
> Christoph Hellwig (8):
>        writeback: fix writeback completion notifications
>        writeback: queue work on stack in writeback_inodes_sb
>        writeback: enforce s_umount locking in writeback_inodes_sb
>        writeback: fix writeback_inodes_wb from writeback_inodes_sb
>        writeback: simplify wakeup_flusher_threads
>        writeback: simplify and split bdi_start_writeback
>        writeback: add missing requeue_io in writeback_inodes_wb
>        writeback: fix pin_sb_for_writeback
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=2c99721ec6a55b2c1e7ba94945bbdae454e11308
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=ebf51611db2cfa33d056b4428f13275f81732fd5
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=de3f848fbc24f71174f3bcc7513b5a3fafb37bac
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=e15e123275b3ca3eeb378136046ab78eab214169
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=dcac2e708d8f8af1a220dd238027af5b4aedfc12
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=8163b53a6bfbfa14ae83f8cdbf536f9c191d3279
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=22e53a2ca88690c711a954d3c652b468a5e94272
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=7eed7cc254e71352e5e2e642c70a9b04cd28cc76


Thanks.  I'll pull those down and backport them here.

Cheers!
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