On 1/14/19 2:09 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > > >> Il giorno 7 dic 2018, alle ore 15:40, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: >> >> 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. > > Hi Jens, > is the second patch still queued? That got dropped for some reason, I've applied it now. -- Jens Axboe
