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SubjectRe: Partially defer some of the async stuff to the next release
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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