Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:00:41 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] block/io bits for 2.6.35-rc |
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On 2010-06-10 18:55, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> wrote: >> >> 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. > > I'm not sure if you noticed, we had a separate thread with Dave > Chinner that resulted in three hopefully fairly minimal patches going > in instead. > > See commits > > git log -3 d87815cb2090 > > and I thought that last one (first one applied: "pay attention to > wbc->nr_to_write") was the one that had fixed the worst XFS issues. > > But maybe it was an unrelated thing.
That's a different bug.
-- Jens Axboe
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