On 12/7/18 3:01 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > > >> Il giorno 7 dic 2018, alle ore 03:23, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: >> >> On 12/6/18 11:18 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: >>> Hi Jens, >>> the first patch in this series fixes an error in the decrementing of >>> the counter of the number of groups with pending I/O. This wrong >>> decrement caused loss of throughput or, less likely, of control on >>> I/O. The second patch is a fix of some wrong comments, which somehow >>> contributed to making the above bug more difficult to find. >> >> Are you fine with this going into 4.21? I can't quite tell what your >> intent is. The first patch has a Fixes for something > > yep, that fixes a serious error. > >> that went into >> this series, but then patch 2 is a comment update that would not >> normally be something to be applied at this stage. >> > > and yes, only comments changed by the second one > > May it make sense to apply them in two steps, one in the 4.20 and the other one in the 4.21? I think so, I'll do that. -- Jens Axboe
