Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:40:48 +0200 | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] block/io bits for 2.6.35-rc |
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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?
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