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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: suparna@in.ibm.com, daniel@osdl.org, linux-aio@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pbadari@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Patch for Retry based AIO-DIO (Was AIO and DIO testingon2.6.0-test7-mm1)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:46:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031023164638.5c32b80f.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031023233700.GJ21490@fs.tum.de>

Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:
>
> > That was before we knew that it craps out when compiled on RH9.
> 
> And one of the arguments I had for making it dependent on EXPERIMENTAL 
> instead of enabling it unconditionally was:
> 
> - it's less tested (there might be miscompilations in some part of the
>   kernel with some supported compilers)

That's why I enabled it unconditionally.

> -Os has it's benefits on some systems, so it shouldn't be totally hidden 
> under EMBEDDED. OTOH, it's less tested, so only people who know what 
> they are doing should use it (EXPERIMENTAL plus help text).

It causes kernels to crash on a major linux distribution.  We need to
either make it very hard to turn on, or just forget it altogether.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-23 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-17 23:12 AIO and DIO testing on 2.6.0-test7-mm1 Daniel McNeil
2003-10-18  0:24 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-20 14:27 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-10-20 23:47   ` Daniel McNeil
2003-10-21 12:11     ` Patch for Retry based AIO-DIO (Was AIO and DIO testing on 2.6.0-test7-mm1) Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-10-23  0:40       ` Daniel McNeil
2003-10-23 10:49         ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-10-23 13:50           ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-10-23 22:59             ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-23 23:20               ` Patch for Retry based AIO-DIO (Was AIO and DIO testing on2.6.0-test7-mm1) Adrian Bunk
2003-10-23 23:25                 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-23 23:37                   ` Patch for Retry based AIO-DIO (Was AIO and DIO testingon2.6.0-test7-mm1) Adrian Bunk
2003-10-23 23:46                     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-10-24  0:34                       ` Patch for Retry based AIO-DIO (Was AIO and DIOtestingon2.6.0-test7-mm1) Adrian Bunk
2003-10-26 11:57                       ` Adrian Bunk
2003-10-26 12:08                         ` Russell King
2003-10-26 12:17                           ` Adrian Bunk
2003-10-26 13:00                             ` Russell King
2003-10-23 23:22               ` Patch for Retry based AIO-DIO (Was AIO and DIO testing on 2.6.0-test7-mm1) Dan Kegel

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