From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 03:18:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 03:18:02 -0500 Received: from isis.its.uow.edu.au ([130.130.68.21]:51958 "EHLO isis.its.uow.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 03:17:55 -0500 Message-ID: <3A2C9E74.A7B2407@uow.edu.au> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 18:51:16 +1100 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.4.0-test8 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Viro , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Alan Cox , Christoph Rohland , Rik van Riel , MOLNAR Ingo Subject: Re: test12-pre5 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok, this contains one of the fixes for the dirty inode buffer list (the > other fix is pending, simply because I still want to understand why it > would be needed at all). Al? I've run the same test suite against vanilla test12-pre5 on two machines for five hours. On ext2/IDE/SMP+UP it's solid. I'll test Al's latest bforget_inode patch overnight, but that's already been through the wringer once. > Also, it has the final installment of the PageDirty handling, and now > officially direct IO can work by just marking the physical page dirty and > be done with it. NFS along with all filesystems have been converted, the > one hold-out still being smbfs. > > Who works on smbfs these days? I see two ways of fixing smbfs now that > "writepage()" only gets an anonymous page and no "struct file" information > any more (this also fixes the double page unlock that Andrew saw). ^^^^^^ Mike Galbraith. - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/