On Wed 03-04-13 15:20:19, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 10:01:43AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A couple of weeks have gone by without further comments about this patch. > > > > Are you interested in the minor cleanups and added comments, or is the v2 patch > > in -next good enough? > > > > Apparently Mel Gorman's interested in this patchset too. Mel: Most of stable > > pages part 2 are already in upstream for 3.9... except this piece. Are you > > interested in having this piece in 3.9 also? Or is 3.10 good enough for > > everyone? > > > > My understanding is that it only affects ARM and DEBUG_VM so there is a > relatively small chance of this generating spurious bug reports. However, > 3.9 is still far enough away that I see no good reason to delay this patch > until 3.10 either. No, actually with direct IO, anything that needs stable pages is going to blow up quickly because pages attached to bio needn't be from page cache. So I think it should better make it into 3.9. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
