From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756187Ab1EDWb0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2011 18:31:26 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:37879 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756151Ab1EDWbS (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 May 2011 18:31:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 00:31:15 +0200 From: Jan Kara To: Theodore Tso Cc: Dave Chinner , Wu Fengguang , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Jan Kara , LKML , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] writeback fixes and trace events Message-ID: <20110504223115.GM6968@quack.suse.cz> References: <20110504091707.910929441@intel.com> <20110504094654.GA31151@infradead.org> <20110504095637.GA2101@localhost> <20110504100609.GE9114@dastard> <9B76908F-0E95-421A-8CDA-39B7AF7DA681@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9B76908F-0E95-421A-8CDA-39B7AF7DA681@mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed 04-05-11 09:12:54, Ted Tso wrote: > On May 4, 2011, at 6:06 AM, Dave Chinner wrote: > > > Does anyone actaully testing filesystems use the -mm tree? I'm > > pretty sure that no-one in the XFS world does, and I don't think > > that any ext4 or btrfs folk do, either.... > > I don't. I agree that it really would be great if there was a separate > git tree for the writeback changes, since that way it becomes possible to > test just the writeback changes, and not worry about other potential > stability problems introduced by changes in the -mm tree.... OK. We'd still push changes to Linus via Andrew but have them also accumulated in that tree for testing. So we'd have a branch with changes sitting in -mm (likely to go to Linus in near future) and then possibly other branches with things brewing for people to try out. Does that make sense? I can setup that tree and maintain it. Or Fengguang, do you want to do it? Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR