From: Nathan Grennan Subject: Re: Ordered mode rewrite patch Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:12:20 -0700 Message-ID: <47FBD1A4.80606@cygnusx-1.org> References: <20080408121149.GB6901@duck.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Kara Return-path: Received: from okcforum.org ([69.17.49.173]:51050 "EHLO mail.okcforum.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752437AbYDHUV3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:21:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080408121149.GB6901@duck.suse.cz> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jan Kara wrote: > Hello, > > attached is a jumbo patch that reverses locking order of transaction > start and page lock in ext3 and rewrites handling of ordered data mode in > JBD and ext3. Note that the patch will break compilation of ext4 and OCFS2. > The patch survives LTP run on my test machine so it shouldn't eat your data > immediately but bugs are of course possible... > I'm very interested in any results (both positive and negative) you could > get with it :). Thanks for testing it. > > Honza > > PS: CCing also linux-ext4 list in case there are some other interested > testers. Next on my todo list is to port this for ext4... > I am trying to apply the patch to Fedora 8's kernel-2.6.24.4-64, and it fails on all the files. + '[' '!' -f /home/builder/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.24.4/ext3-jbd-2.6.25-ordered_mode.patch ']' + case "$patch" in + patch -p1 -F1 -s 1 out of 26 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file fs/ext3/inode.c.rej 1 out of 11 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file fs/jbd/commit.c.rej 1 out of 12 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file fs/jbd/transaction.c.rej 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file include/linux/writeback.h.rej