On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 07:50:18PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Greg, > > The reason why Todd's patch is needed in 3.0 is because the code in > question was nuked as of 3.2 by commit 4113c4caa4f355: > > commit 4113c4caa4f355b8ff8b7ff0510c29c9d00d30b3 > Author: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat Oct 8 14:34:47 2011 -0400 > > ext4: remove deprecated oldalloc > > For a long time now orlov is the default block allocator in the > ext4. It performs better than the old one and no one seems to claim > otherwise so we can safely drop it and make oldalloc and orlov mount > option deprecated. > > This is a part of the effort to reduce number of ext4 options hence the > test matrix. > > Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> > > So the 64-bit divides aren't in the upstream kernel because the code > in question is long gone in the mainline ext4 code. It looks like Cai > (who did the 3.0 backport) never tested the patch on a 32-bit build. > > Thanks Todd, for providing the patch. You can add my: > > Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> > > to it. Greg, could you apply it to the stable tree? Thanks!! Thanks for the review, will apply it for the next release, thanks. greg k-h -- 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
