On Sun, 2015-11-29 at 20:13 -0800, Eric Wheeler wrote: > Hello all, > > Please pull this bcache branch with stability patches and see if it fixes > any issue that you might have! If you have stability patches (*that you > have tested*) which are not part of this branch, then please forward them > so they can be included. > > We have been using bcache with great performance and stability for over a > year; it is the best SSD caching mechanism that we have found for our > workload. > > I've been collecting these fixes for a while now and just put them up on > github so they can be easily merged. I continue to see mailing list > discussions about problems that users are having which these patches > address, so hopefully we can get these merged: > > https://github.com/ewheelerinc/linux/commits/bcache-patches-for-3.17 > git add remote ewheelerinc https://github.com/ewheelerinc/linux.git > git fetch ewheelerinc > git merge ewheelerinc/bcache-patches-for-3.17 > > This branch is from a clone of Linus's tree circa 3.17-rc so git merge > should bring this in cleanly to any later branch. This will merge cleanly > into kernel.org longerm versions v4.1.13 and v3.18.24. The original > author is cited in each commit; you are being Cc'ed in this email if you > are an author on any of these patches or are part of a mailing list thread > indicating problems that this pull may fix. I just did a test merge on the patches against today's master and I had no merge conflicts. The overall diff looks reasonable as well and it builds w/o any warnings. Just pulling them straight in won't be a good idea though, as the From: always points to Eric, that needs to be fixed up (but that's all just mechanics). > > Each commit includes `Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx` so if they get pulled > into mainline we will see bcache stable on the newer LTS branches of > kernel.org. > > This git branch includes patches that have been collected and tested by > Denis Bychkov from his post on 2015-09-16 with one exception: the > refill_dirty() patch has been updated to the latest stable version which > Kent posted the next day. The refill_dirty patch addresses issues when > bcache is backed by raid5/6 md's causing > queue_limits->partial_stripes_expensive to be nonzero. > > > Kent, > > Can this be sent to Jens for a pull into mainline? If you can give your > OK on this patchset then I'll approach Jens and see if he can pull this > in. Maybe Cc him in your response. > > If there's anything in here that you would like to omit or change from > this pull then let me know and I'll rebase. > > Thanks! > > -Eric > Kent, can you please merge these patches? There are people out there actually using bcache and these patches aren't just cosmetics. Thanks a lot for collecting these patches Eric. Johannes > > > -- > Eric Wheeler, President eWheeler, Inc. dba Global Linux Security > 888-LINUX26 (888-546-8926) Fax: 503-716-3878 PO Box 25107 > www.GlobalLinuxSecurity.pro ; Linux since 1996! Portland, OR 97298 > -- > 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 -- 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
