On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:35:06AM +0000, Hank Janssen wrote: > > And then Greg spoke: > >>On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 05:31:51PM +0000, Hank Janssen wrote: > >> From: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> > > >Fixed bounce offset kmap problem by using correct index > > > >Is this a bugfix that needs to go to previous kernel releases? If so, which ones? What is the symptom of the problem here? > > Yes, this should be backported to all stable kernel releases that have the Hyper-V drivers In them. > > The symptom of the problem is that in some NAS appliances this problem represents > Itself by a unresponsive VM under a load with many clients writing small files. > > I actually goofed up in my previous code and used an incorrect index number > For this part of the code. It should have shown up in more situations than what > I have seen oddly enough. Please provide this type of information in the changelog section. If you want something backported to older stable kernels, add a: Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> to the signed-off-by area of the patch and it will be automatically sent to the stable alias when it gets included in Linus's tree so I know to pick it up then. Care to resend all of these patches based on these comments? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
