From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [10/24] vfs: Add no_nrwrite_index_update writeback control flag Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 10:12:22 -0700 Message-ID: <20100525171222.GA3533@suse.de> References: <20100524223544.GA13721@kroah.com> <20100524223016.208581966@clark.site> <20100525111208.GA8779@infradead.org> <20100525165230.GA9154@suse.de> <4BFC024A.9090600@jaysonking.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Ext4 Developers List , Theodore Tso , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" To: "Jayson R. King" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BFC024A.9090600@jaysonking.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:00:58PM -0500, Jayson R. King wrote: > On 05/25/2010 11:52 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 07:12:08AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 03:28:06PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > >>> 2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > >> > >> NACK. This has been shown to cause severe writeback regression for > >> other filesystems and is beeing reverted in mianline. > > > > Ok, if I drop this one, I think I need to drop an ext4 patch as well, > > I'll go figure that out and respin a -rc2 with this change in it. > > You'd have to drop the next two ext4 -stable patches to get a buildable > kernel if you drop this one. The last of those ext4 patches is the one > which fixes the deadlock from kernel bugzilla #12579. I've now dropped those next two ext4 patches. If someone wants to get this bug fixed for the .27 tree, please feel free to send me the patches. Personally, I doubt many people care about ext4 on the .27 kernel release... thanks, greg k-h