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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix commit of ordered data buffers
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:05:30 +0200
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:

> here is the patch that came out of the thread "set_page_buffer_dirty
> should skip unmapped buffers". It fixes several flaws in the code
> writing out ordered data buffers during commit. It definitely fixed the
> problem Badari was seeing with fsx-linux test. Could you include it
> into -mm? Since there are quite complex interactions with other JBD code
> and the locking is kind of ugly, I'd leave it in -mm for a while whether
> some bug does not emerge ;). Thanks.

yup. Thanks, guys. I'll take a close look at this. I'll aim to get it
into 2.6.19-rc1 a week or so after 2.6.18 is released. Once it has cooked
in mainline for a couple of weeks it should be then suitable for a 2.6.18.x
backport. That'll be around the 2.6.19-rc2 timeframe.
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