From: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
Subject: Re: hunt for 2.6.37 dm-crypt+ext4 corruption?
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 16:56:41 +0100
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Cc: Heinz Diehl <htd@fritha.org>, Matt <jackdachef@gmail.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
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On 05.12.2010, Milan Broz wrote: 

> It still seems to like dmcrypt with its parallel processing is just
> trigger to another bug in 37-rc.

To come back to this: my 3 systems (XFS filesystem) running the latest 
dm-crypt-scale-to-multiple-cpus patch from Andi Kleen/Milan Broz have 
not showed a single problem since 2.6.37-rc6 and above. No corruption any 
longer, no freezes, nothing. The patch applies cleanly to 2.6.37, too, 
and runs just fine.

I blindly guess that my data corruption problem was related to something else in the
2.6.37-rc series up to -rc4/5.

Since this patch is a significant improvement: any chance that it finally gets 
merged into mainline/stable?