Il giorno ven, 27/09/2019 alle 17.47 +0200, Andrea Vai ha scritto: > Il giorno mer, 25/09/2019 alle 21.36 +0200, Jens Axboe ha scritto: > > On 9/25/19 9:30 PM, Alan Stern wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > I have attached the two patches to this email. You should start > > with a > > > recent kernel source tree and apply the patches by doing: > > > > > > git apply patch1 patch2 > > > > > > or something similar. Then build a kernel from the new source > > code and > > > test it. > > > > > > Ultimately, if nobody can find a way to restore the sequential > I/O > > > behavior we had prior to commit f664a3cc17b7, that commit may > have > > to > > > be reverted. > > > > Don't use patch1, it's buggy. patch2 should be enough to test the > > theory. As I didn't have any answer, I am quoting my last reply here: > > Sorry, but if I cd into the "linux" directory and run the command > > # git apply -v patch2 > > the result is that the patch cannot be applied correctly: > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > Controllo della patch block/blk-mq.c in corso... > error: durante la ricerca per: > ? > static blk_qc_t blk_mq_make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct > bio *bio)? > {? > const int is_sync = op_is_sync(bio->bi_opf);? > const int is_flush_fua = op_is_flush(bio->bi_opf);? > struct blk_mq_alloc_data data = { .flags = 0};? > struct request *rq;? > > error: patch non riuscita: block/blk-mq.c:1931 > error: block/blk-mq.c: la patch non si applica correttamente > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > The "linux" directory is the one generated by a fresh git clone: > > git clone > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git > > What am I doing wrong? > Meanwhile, Alan tried to help me and gave me another patch (attached), which doesn't work too, but gives a different error: "The git diff header does not contain information about the file once removed 1 initial component of the path (row 14)" (actually, this is my translation from the original message in Italian: "error: l'intestazione git diff non riporta le informazioni sul file una volta rimosso 1 componente iniziale del percorso (riga 14)") I tested the two patches after a fresh git clone today, a few minutes ago. What can I do? Thank you, Bye Andrea