Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755614AbdCKWcm (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Mar 2017 17:32:42 -0500 Received: from mail-pf0-f171.google.com ([209.85.192.171]:35662 "EHLO mail-pf0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755340AbdCKWcj (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Mar 2017 17:32:39 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Updates following recent generic_make_request improvement To: NeilBrown References: <148912539296.4002.219258660543808741.stgit@noble> Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Mike Snitzer , LKML , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, device-mapper development , Mikulas Patocka , Pavel Machek , Jack Wang , Lars Ellenberg , Kent Overstreet From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: <3c5e786a-ba42-ada8-c943-17e8b72c63d1@kernel.dk> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 15:32:35 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <148912539296.4002.219258660543808741.stgit@noble> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 767 Lines: 19 On 03/09/2017 11:00 PM, NeilBrown wrote: > This is a rebase of the series I sent earlier, based on the > very latest from Linus, which included my first patch. > > The first fixes a problem that patch introduced, and so should go to > Linux promptly. > The others are more general improvements and can go in the normal > course of events. > > It is possible that the changes to btrfs and xfs can just be dropped > as a subsequent patch will be needed to revert them anyway. They are > there only to be able to say that "blk: make the bioset > rescue_workqueue optional." doesn't change any functionality at all. I have applied the first patch for this series, and added the Fixes tag. We'll let the rest simmer a bit, then aim for 4.12 for those. -- Jens Axboe