linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/18] writeback fixes and cleanups for 2.6.40 (v3)

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Message-ID: <20110524032859.GA17429@localhost>
Date:	Tue, 24 May 2011 11:28:59 +0800
From:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] writeback fixes and cleanups for 2.6.40 (v3)

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:28:38PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:07:39PM +0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Wu, Andrew,
> > 
> > what's the plan for these for 2.6.40?  We'll need to make some progress
> > in this area, and even if we can't get everything it we should make sure
> > to at least include the updated versions of those in -mm.  But even
> > some of the later ones are pretty low risk.
> 
> Yes, except for patch 14 which does not include external behavior
> changes besides the good full write chunk size for large files, the
> patches not in -mm are pretty trivial ones.
> 
> Aside from my simple tests, Alex also helped going through the LKP
> tests with the patchset and find no writeback regressions.

I'll rearrange the series and move patch 14 to the end, so that the
patches come in order

- 10 (updated) patches in -mm
- 6 more trivial patches that is safe to go upstream after -rc1 
- the current patch 14 and patch 16 (that depends on 14)

Thanks,
Fengguang
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