From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751632AbaIESqA (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2014 14:46:00 -0400 Received: from mail-ph.de-nserver.de ([85.158.179.214]:54092 "EHLO mail-ph.de-nserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750906AbaIESp6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2014 14:45:58 -0400 X-Fcrdns: No Message-ID: <540A04E9.6020606@profihost.ag> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 20:46:01 +0200 From: Stefan Priebe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kent Overstreet , Jens Axboe CC: Arne Wiebalck , Peter Kieser , "eddie@ehuk.net" , Francis Moreau , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org" , stable Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] bcache changes for 3.17 References: <20140805043346.GF541@moria.home.lan> <53E10D48.1010700@kernel.dk> <53E7251B.3080305@kieser.ca> <540966BA.9030106@gmail.com> <5409C5FC.6020406@kernel.dk> <5409D8BC.7030003@ehuk.net> <5409E7AB.7040704@kieser.ca> <5409EE75.9060407@kernel.dk> <20140905183301.GB17903@daterainc.com> In-Reply-To: <20140905183301.GB17903@daterainc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-User-Auth: Auth by s.priebe@profihost.ag through 185.39.223.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 05.09.2014 20:33, schrieb Kent Overstreet: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 11:10:13AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >> On 09/05/2014 11:03 AM, Arne Wiebalck wrote: >>> >>> On Sep 5, 2014, at 6:41 PM, Peter Kieser >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On 2014-09-05 8:37 AM, Eddie Chapman wrote: >>>>> On 05/09/14 15:17, Jens Axboe wrote: >>>>>> (from oldest to newest). And that's just from 3.16 to 3.17-rc3, going >>>>>> all the way back to 3.10 would be a lot of work. If there's anyone that >>>>>> cares about bcache on stable kernels (and actually use it), now would be >>>>>> a good time to pipe up. >>>>> >>>>> Just "piping up" as I care about bcache and actually use it in production on 3.10! Shame I don't have the knowledge to try and backport these though :-) >>>>> >>>>> Eddie >>>> >>>> I'm "piping up" as well, I use bcache on 3.10 in production. >>>> >>>> -Peter >>>> >>> >>> >>> More "piping up": we currently use bcache on a few nodes in production, on 3.14 and 3.15, and plan to roll it out on a wider scale now. >>> If necessary we'll go with these kernels, but we'd certainly prefer our usual 3.10-based CentOS kernel. >> >> OK, so we definitely have people using it in production. My concern was >> that whomever does the backport of the appropriate patches to 3.10/14/15 >> stable would have an audience for getting some amount of testing of such >> a patch series. >> >> Now we just need someone to line up to do the work... > > I can try and make some time for backporting; if we've got people lined up for > testing that will help a lot. > > Backporting fixes to 3.10 will be harder, but if memory serves there hasn't been > as much churn since 3.14 so backporting fixes to then shouldn't be too bad. If > Stefan wants to post what he's got for 3.10 though I can try and backport some > more fixes on top of that, though You'll find them here: https://github.com/profihost/linux-stable/commits/bcache_latest_fixes Most probably you don't want the last four. Stefan > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >