From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753055AbZIKNpc (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:45:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752249AbZIKNpc (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:45:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55681 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752760AbZIKNpa (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:45:30 -0400 From: Jeff Moyer To: Jens Axboe Cc: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: What's in linux-2.6-block.git for 2.6.32 References: <20090911124106.GC14984@kernel.dk> X-PGP-KeyID: 1F78E1B4 X-PGP-CertKey: F6FE 280D 8293 F72C 65FD 5A58 1FF8 A7CA 1F78 E1B4 X-PCLoadLetter: What the f**k does that mean? Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:45:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090911124106.GC14984@kernel.dk> (Jens Axboe's message of "Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:41:07 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jens Axboe writes: > Hi, > > This is just the core block bits, I have other branches pending. And a > heads up that I had to rebase this branch today, something I haven't > done during the .31 cycle. This was due to the history being really odd, > with modified patches of for-2.6.32 patches being forwarded to mainline. > So I though it would be better to clean this history and merge fixups. > There was also a middle point that would break bisection. > > Nothing really earth shattering in here, nor are there really big > changes for this cycle. > > - Some updates to CFQ to improve interactiveness. > - Some cleanups and sanitization of the bio IO flags. > - blk-iopoll, an experimental API for doing NAPI like polled completions > for really fast devices. In testing this has shown to be faster for > some cases, while slower for others. The included patch is just the > core bits, no driver support is being merged yet. > - Enable CPU IO completion by default. My testing has shown this to be > faster, and independent testing by Intel confirms that as well. > - A fix to only issue a block queue trace when we actually intend to > queue. > - A fix for splice to update mtime and atime on files. > - A cleanup of the failfast bits and merge fixups for the same. Any particular reason you're holding off on the pktcdvd regression fix I posted? Cheers, Jeff