Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161113AbWHDJFf (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 05:05:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161119AbWHDJFf (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 05:05:35 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:51897 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161113AbWHDJFe (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 05:05:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:04:22 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, jmforbes@linuxtx.org, zwane@arm.linux.org.uk, tytso@mit.edu, rdunlap@xenotime.net, davej@redhat.com, chuckw@quantumlinux.com, reviews@ml.cw.f00f.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, jes@trained-monkey.org, jes@sgi.com Subject: Re: [patch 12/23] invalidate_bdev() speedup Message-Id: <20060804020422.09b32164.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060804085012.GA20026@infradead.org> References: <20060804053258.391158155@quad.kroah.org> <20060804053942.GM769@kroah.com> <20060804085012.GA20026@infradead.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 816 Lines: 20 On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 09:50:13 +0100 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:39:42PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > This is a feature. Definitly not -stable material. Apparently that regular IPI storm is causing the SGI machines some significant problems. I assume it's the interrupt latency problem again. Jes would know. It's not the biggest problem we've ever had, but if this patch is wrong, the pagecache/buffer_head layer is utterly busted. And it isn't. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/