Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:54:11 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: Partially defer some of the async stuff to the next release
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On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:42:34 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 
> > I think it's better that we defer some of the asynchronous boot
> > stuff to 2.6.30 so that it can bake in -next for a bit. I would
> > like to keep the core infrastructure in place for 29, so that the
> > various subsystem patches etc can just use it in -next without
> > generating dependencies in the patch flow.
> > 
> > for both libata and the inode delete very simple things can be done
> > to fix them, but I would feel a lot more comfortable giving these a
> > ride in -next.
> 
> Can we rather make this something that people can enable with a
> "fastboot" option and is disabled by default? At least that way the
> ATA people can see the problem, and don't just forget about it, since
> we want it fixed.


if you pull this you get the patch that removes the inode part for now,
and adds a "fastboot" kernel commandline option to enable the async
behavior.


The following changes since commit
7c51d57e9d7fbce89f79c41dc8da383101dbe9c6: Linus Torvalds (1):
        Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6

are available in the git repository at:

  ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async-2
  master

Arjan van de Ven (2):
      partial revert of asynchronous inode delete
      async: make async a command line option for now

 fs/inode.c     |   19 +++++++------------
 kernel/async.c |   16 ++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)


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