From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754673Ab1EDQBZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2011 12:01:25 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:36174 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751764Ab1EDQBX (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2011 12:01:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 12:01:22 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: XFS status update for April 2011 Message-ID: <20110504160122.GA7224@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org April saw further stabilization work on the Linux 2.6.39 kernel, including a number of XFS bug fixes. Most importantly a series of patches fixes various OOM problems due to bad interactions between the generic writeback code and XFS inode reclaim, but there also were other patches for various smaller issues. In the meantime the XFS development tree saw the addition of the optimized busy extent tracking, which allows large speedups for multi-threaded meta data heavy workloads, and lays the groundwork for discard support on transaction commit, and a few other smaller patches. On the user space side the xfsprogs and xfsdump repositories saw a very quiet month with no applied patches, although a few were posted and discussed on the mailing list. The xfstests repository on the other hand saw a new test cases exercising the xfs_metadump functionally as well as a fixes to existing tests.