2010-10-27 10:36:47

by Sedat Dilek

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Subject: ext4 patches for 2.6.37-rc1?

Hi,

I was wondering if Ted will send ext4 patches within the open
merge-window for 2.6.37-rc1.
If you plan to send to Linus, can you give a short overview what
endusers will expect?

BTW, in which of the GIT trees ([1], [2]) is the ext4 development
actually happening?

Kind Regards,
- Sedat -

[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git;a=summary
[2] http://repo.or.cz/w/ext4-patch-queue.git


2010-10-27 20:29:45

by Theodore Ts'o

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Subject: Re: ext4 patches for 2.6.37-rc1?

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:36:46PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>
> I was wondering if Ted will send ext4 patches within the open
> merge-window for 2.6.37-rc1.

Yes, I am planning on sending patches to Linus.

It's a bit late because I've been crazy busy this past few weeks.

> If you plan to send to Linus, can you give a short overview what
> endusers will expect?

lazy inode table init, improved scalability for buffered writeback (3x
throughput improvement when writing large files in parallel on 48 and
192 threads on a 48-core machine), and a bunch of cleanups and bug
fixes.

> BTW, in which of the GIT trees ([1], [2]) is the ext4 development
> actually happening?
>
> [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git;a=summary
> [2] http://repo.or.cz/w/ext4-patch-queue.git

Primary development happens in [2], and then it gets mirrored to [1]
periodically.

- Ted

2010-10-28 06:41:58

by Sedat Dilek

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Subject: Re: ext4 patches for 2.6.37-rc1?

Hi Ted,

thanks for your explanations.

Just saw your GIT-pull request on LKML [1] and compiling now
linux-next (next-20101028) [2] which includes ext4.
Linus pulled to upstream, so 2.6.36-git11 will have the ext4-patches :-).

Thanks all for their work on ext4!

Kind Regards,
- Sedat -

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/28/12
[2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/27/509

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Ted Ts'o <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:36:46PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering if Ted will send ext4 patches within the open
>> merge-window for 2.6.37-rc1.
>
> Yes, I am planning on sending patches to Linus.
>
> It's a bit late because I've been crazy busy this past few weeks.
>
>> If you plan to send to Linus, can you give a short overview what
>> endusers will expect?
>
> lazy inode table init, improved scalability for buffered writeback (3x
> throughput improvement when writing large files in parallel on 48 and
> 192 threads on a 48-core machine), and a bunch of cleanups and bug
> fixes.
>
>> BTW, in which of the GIT trees ([1], [2]) is the ext4 development
>> actually happening?
>>
>> [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git;a=summary
>> [2] http://repo.or.cz/w/ext4-patch-queue.git
>
> Primary development happens in [2], and then it gets mirrored to [1]
> periodically.
>
>                                                - Ted
>