linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Make snapshotting pages for stable writes a per-bio operation

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Date:	Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:20:19 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Shuge <shugelinux@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Kevin <kevin@...winnertech.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Make snapshotting pages for stable writes a
 per-bio operation

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 10:01:43AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A couple of weeks have gone by without further comments about this patch.
> 
> Are you interested in the minor cleanups and added comments, or is the v2 patch
> in -next good enough?
> 
> Apparently Mel Gorman's interested in this patchset too.  Mel: Most of stable
> pages part 2 are already in upstream for 3.9... except this piece.  Are you
> interested in having this piece in 3.9 also?  Or is 3.10 good enough for
> everyone?
> 

My understanding is that it only affects ARM and DEBUG_VM so there is a
relatively small chance of this generating spurious bug reports.  However,
3.9 is still far enough away that I see no good reason to delay this patch
until 3.10 either.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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