Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 25 May 2010 10:12:22 -0700 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | Re: [10/24] vfs: Add no_nrwrite_index_update writeback control flag |
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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:00:58PM -0500, Jayson R. King wrote: > On 05/25/2010 11:52 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 07:12:08AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 03:28:06PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > >>> 2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > >> > >> NACK. This has been shown to cause severe writeback regression for > >> other filesystems and is beeing reverted in mianline. > > > > Ok, if I drop this one, I think I need to drop an ext4 patch as well, > > I'll go figure that out and respin a -rc2 with this change in it. > > You'd have to drop the next two ext4 -stable patches to get a buildable > kernel if you drop this one. The last of those ext4 patches is the one > which fixes the deadlock from kernel bugzilla #12579.
I've now dropped those next two ext4 patches. If someone wants to get this bug fixed for the .27 tree, please feel free to send me the patches.
Personally, I doubt many people care about ext4 on the .27 kernel release...
thanks,
greg k-h
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