From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263084AbUDEDiC (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Apr 2004 23:38:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263085AbUDEDiC (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Apr 2004 23:38:02 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.101]:35476 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263084AbUDEDh7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Apr 2004 23:37:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:39:55 +0530 From: Suparna Bhattacharya To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: AIO patches reworked against radix-tree-writeback changes Message-ID: <20040405090955.GB3402@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: suparna@in.ibm.com References: <20040402192937.GA4900@in.ibm.com> <20040402153148.A3767@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040402153148.A3767@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 03:31:48PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:59:37AM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > I just uploaded an update to the AIO patchset against the > > -mm tree (2.6.5-rc3-mm4): > > www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/suparna/aio/265rc3mm4 > > Why is 4g4g-aio-hang-fix.patch still only in your patchkit? Despite the > name it's not specific to the 4G/4G patch for x86 but nessecary for all > architectures that have a kernel mapping unrelated to the user one ( > sparc64 and s390 come to mind). I guess it must be because aio_kick_handler() isn't actually used in the mainline tree as yet, but is used by the retry-based AIO patches (Similarly so for some of the use_mm fixes that are part of aio-retry.patch). Regards Suparna -- Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@in.ibm.com) Linux Technology Center IBM Software Lab, India