Re: ext4: Fix data corruption with multi-block writepages support

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On 02/07/2011 06:45 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:40:47PM +0000, Matt wrote:
>>
>> So that means that the file-corruption which existed until 2.6.37-rc6
>> and got triggered (for me) more easily via "dm crypt: scale to
>> multiple CPUs"
>> is fixed now ?
> 
> Well, a patch exists for it that will be merged into 2.6.38.
> 
>> That should give ext4 a nice speedup for >=2.6.38 :)
> 
> I'm not going to make it be the default for 2.6.38, since it's fairly
> late in the -rc features.  People who want it can explicitly enable it
> using the mount option mblk_io_submit, though.  (And let me know your
> success stories!  :-) I will be enabling it as the default in
> 2.6.39-rc1.

So it was ext4 only bug in ext4_end_bio(),
dm-crypt per-cpu code was just trigger here, right?

Milan
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