From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
torvalds@osdl.org, jmforbes@linuxtx.org, zwane@arm.linux.org.uk,
tytso@mit.edu, rdunlap@xenotime.net, davej@redhat.com,
chuckw@quantumlinux.com, reviews@ml.cw.f00f.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, jes@trained-monkey.org, jes@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [patch 12/23] invalidate_bdev() speedup
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:04:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060804020422.09b32164.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060804085012.GA20026@infradead.org>
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 09:50:13 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:39:42PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
>
> This is a feature. Definitly not -stable material.
Apparently that regular IPI storm is causing the SGI machines some
significant problems. I assume it's the interrupt latency problem again.
Jes would know.
It's not the biggest problem we've ever had, but if this patch is wrong,
the pagecache/buffer_head layer is utterly busted. And it isn't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-04 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-08-04 5:38 ` [patch 00/23] -stable review Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:38 ` [patch 01/23] PCI: fix issues with extended conf space when MMCONFIG disabled because of e820 Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:38 ` [patch 02/23] Dont allow chmod() on the /proc/<pid>/ files Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:38 ` [patch 03/23] : H.323 helper: fix possible NULL-ptr dereference Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:38 ` [patch 04/23] scx200_acb: Fix the state machine Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:38 ` [patch 05/23] scx200_acb: Fix the block transactions Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:38 ` [patch 06/23] i2c: Fix ignore module parameter handling in i2c-core Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:39 ` [patch 07/23] sky2: NAPI bug Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:39 ` [patch 08/23] UHCI: Fix handling of short last packet Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:39 ` [patch 09/23] : Update frag_list in pskb_trim Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:39 ` [patch 10/23] VLAN state handling fix Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:39 ` [patch 11/23] Sparc64 quad-float emulation fix Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:39 ` [patch 12/23] invalidate_bdev() speedup Greg KH
2006-08-04 8:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-04 9:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-08-04 13:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-04 13:25 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-08-04 15:18 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 5:39 ` [patch 13/23] ieee1394: sbp2: enable auto spin-up for Maxtor disks Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:39 ` [patch 14/23] Fix race related problem when adding items to and svcrpc auth cache Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:40 ` [patch 15/23] ext3 -nobh option causes oops Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:40 ` [patch 16/23] ext3: avoid triggering ext3_error on bad NFS file handle Greg KH
2006-08-04 14:45 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-08-04 14:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-04 15:35 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-08-05 1:28 ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-10 5:38 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:40 ` [patch 17/23] e1000: add forgotten PCI ID for supported device Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:40 ` [patch 18/23] cond_resched() fix Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:40 ` [patch 19/23] Fix budget-av compile failure Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:40 ` [patch 20/23] S390: fix futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic Greg KH
2006-08-07 8:39 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-08-04 5:40 ` [patch 21/23] tty serialize flush_to_ldisc Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:40 ` [patch 22/23] Add stable branch to maintainers file Greg KH
2006-08-04 5:41 ` [patch 23/23] Have ext2 reject file handles with bad inode numbers early Greg KH
2006-08-04 7:18 ` [patch 00/23] -stable review Grant Coady
2006-08-04 7:20 ` Greg KH
2006-08-04 9:04 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-08-04 9:10 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-08-04 9:19 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-08-04 9:24 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-08-04 9:31 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-08-04 9:19 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 9:22 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-08-04 13:50 ` Auke Kok
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