On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Heinz Diehl <htd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05.12.2010, Milan Broz wrote: > >> It still seems to like dmcrypt with its parallel processing is just >> trigger to another bug in 37-rc. > > To come back to this: my 3 systems (XFS filesystem) running the latest > dm-crypt-scale-to-multiple-cpus patch from Andi Kleen/Milan Broz have > not showed a single problem since 2.6.37-rc6 and above. No corruption any > longer, no freezes, nothing. The patch applies cleanly to 2.6.37, too, > and runs just fine. > > I blindly guess that my data corruption problem was related to something else in the > 2.6.37-rc series up to -rc4/5. > > Since this patch is a significant improvement: any chance that it finally gets > merged into mainline/stable? > > Hi Heinz, I've been using this patch since 2.6.37-rc6+ with ext4 and xfs filesystems and haven't seen any corruptions since then (ext4 got "fixed" since 2.6.37-rc6, xfs showed no problems from the start) http://git.eu.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1449032be17abb69116dbc393f67ceb8bd034f92 (is the actual temporary fix for ext4) Regards Matt -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
