From: "Jayson R. King" Subject: Re: [10/24] vfs: Add no_nrwrite_index_update writeback control flag Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 12:00:58 -0500 Message-ID: <4BFC024A.9090600@jaysonking.com> References: <20100524223544.GA13721@kroah.com> <20100524223016.208581966@clark.site> <20100525111208.GA8779@infradead.org> <20100525165230.GA9154@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 , "Jayson R. King" , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" To: Greg KH Return-path: Received: from bosmailout12.eigbox.net ([66.96.186.12]:33551 "EHLO bosmailout12.eigbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932676Ab0EYRdR (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2010 13:33:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100525165230.GA9154@suse.de> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. Jayson