On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 05:49:31PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 02:32:02PM -0800, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > Bcache: a block layer SSD cache > > > > Does writethrough and writeback, handles unclean shutdown, and has > > various other nifty features. See the wiki and the documentation for > > more: > > > > http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org > > > > Over the Christmas break I finally got the tree into a self contained > > state that ought to be suitable for merging; this tree is fairly close > > to the previous stable tree that people have been running on production > > servers for awhile (and that I've been running on this workstation), > > > > So, I think this is ready for mainline and I'd like to get it in. I > > should've tried to push it ages ago, but I was hoping to get in various > > block layer cleanups first; I finally deided to work around them in the > > meantime since I haven't had time to finish the block layer stuff. > > > > Not everything has been addressed since I last posted for review > > feedback - notably the closure code was controversial and for now I've > > just moved that into drivers/block/bcache (though I've been refactoring > > stuff to make it less asynchronous lately; most of that work is in the > > testing/dev branches). The bigger issue IMO is the userspace interface - > > I'd like to finish the md integration so it doesn't need userspace stuff > > for probing/bootup. So, I'd be fine with it going into staging if that's > > the consensus, but it's stable tested code. > > If it goes into staging, I need a reason why it can't be merged into the > "real" part of the kernel, and what will be done to get it there. I don't personally see why it can't, but maybe other people will chime in. There's certainly still stuff to do (something this size is never finished) but I'm not abandoning the code. > Oh, and you will need to get acks from the people who's symbols you are > wanting to export, usually staging patches are self-contained. Yeah, good point. I'll mail out those patches now. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
