From: Ted Ts'o Subject: Re: ext4 patches for 2.6.37-rc1? Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:29:34 -0400 Message-ID: <20101027202933.GD3194@thunk.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: sedat.dilek@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:33055 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752331Ab0J0U3p (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:29:45 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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