Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753476AbWLOV6Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:58:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753456AbWLOV6Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:58:16 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:34615 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753498AbWLOV6P (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:58:15 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:06:18 +0000 From: Alan To: Andrew Morton Cc: Neil Brown , Jurriaan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , Tejun Heo Subject: Re: sata badness in 2.6.20-rc1? [Was: Re: md patches in -mm] Message-ID: <20061215220618.06f1873c@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20061215133927.a8346372.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20061204203410.6152efec.akpm@osdl.org> <17780.63770.228659.234534@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20061205061623.GA13749@amd64.of.nowhere> <20061205062142.GA14784@amd64.of.nowhere> <20061204224323.2e5d0494.akpm@osdl.org> <20061205105928.GA6482@amd64.of.nowhere> <17782.28505.303064.964551@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20061215192146.GA3616@amd64.of.nowhere> <17795.2681.523120.656367@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20061215130552.95860b72.akpm@osdl.org> <20061215133927.a8346372.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; x86_64-redhat-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: 976 Lines: 23 On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:39:27 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:05:52 -0800 > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Jeff, I shall send all the sata patches which I have at you one single time > > and I shall then drop the lot. So please don't flub them. > > > > I'll then do a rc1-mm2 without them. > > hm, this is looking like a lot of work for not much gain. Rafael, are > you able to do a quick chop and tell us whether these: The md one and the long history of reports about parallel I/O causing problems sounds a lot more like the kmap stuff you were worried about Andrew. I'd be very intereste dto know if it happens on x86_32 built with a standard memory split and no highmem.... - 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/