Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:54:11 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Partially defer some of the async stuff to the next release |
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On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:42:34 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > I think it's better that we defer some of the asynchronous boot > > stuff to 2.6.30 so that it can bake in -next for a bit. I would > > like to keep the core infrastructure in place for 29, so that the > > various subsystem patches etc can just use it in -next without > > generating dependencies in the patch flow. > > > > for both libata and the inode delete very simple things can be done > > to fix them, but I would feel a lot more comfortable giving these a > > ride in -next. > > Can we rather make this something that people can enable with a > "fastboot" option and is disabled by default? At least that way the > ATA people can see the problem, and don't just forget about it, since > we want it fixed.
if you pull this you get the patch that removes the inode part for now, and adds a "fastboot" kernel commandline option to enable the async behavior.
The following changes since commit 7c51d57e9d7fbce89f79c41dc8da383101dbe9c6: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
are available in the git repository at:
ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async-2 master
Arjan van de Ven (2): partial revert of asynchronous inode delete async: make async a command line option for now
fs/inode.c | 19 +++++++------------ kernel/async.c | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
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