From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757105Ab1EXD3F (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2011 23:29:05 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:21655 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755533Ab1EXD3C (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2011 23:29:02 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,259,1304319600"; d="scan'208";a="3703173" Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 11:28:59 +0800 From: Wu Fengguang To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Andrew Morton , Jan Kara , Dave Chinner , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] writeback fixes and cleanups for 2.6.40 (v3) Message-ID: <20110524032859.GA17429@localhost> References: <20110519214530.939830917@intel.com> <20110523090739.GA27894@infradead.org> <20110523092838.GA25829@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110523092838.GA25829@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:28:38PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:07:39PM +0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Wu, Andrew, > > > > what's the plan for these for 2.6.40? We'll need to make some progress > > in this area, and even if we can't get everything it we should make sure > > to at least include the updated versions of those in -mm. But even > > some of the later ones are pretty low risk. > > Yes, except for patch 14 which does not include external behavior > changes besides the good full write chunk size for large files, the > patches not in -mm are pretty trivial ones. > > Aside from my simple tests, Alex also helped going through the LKP > tests with the patchset and find no writeback regressions. I'll rearrange the series and move patch 14 to the end, so that the patches come in order - 10 (updated) patches in -mm - 6 more trivial patches that is safe to go upstream after -rc1 - the current patch 14 and patch 16 (that depends on 14) Thanks, Fengguang