Re: + fs-introduce-write_begin-write_end-and-perform_write-aops.patch added to -mm tree

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On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:39:54AM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 05:13 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 02:19:55PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > > The patch titled
> > >      fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aops
> > > has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
> > >      fs-introduce-write_begin-write_end-and-perform_write-aops.patch
> > > 
> > > *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***
> > > 
> > > See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
> > > out what to do about this
> > > 
> > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > > Subject: fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aops
> > > From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > These are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more
> > > flexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write
> > > deadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do).
> > 
> > OK, well now Andrew's merged a significant chunk of this work, I
> > would like to try getting the clustered filesystem patches back
> > in too (Steven, the last GFS2 patch you sent had rejects against this
> > tree, so I dropped it... hope it isn't too much work to bring it back
> > uptodate?).
> > 
> I think the following should do the trick... sorry for the delay, I was
> on holiday last week and I'm just catching up again. There is not a lot
> of change from the previous version, just a few small changes in the
> upstream code which had caused one chunk not to apply,

OK thanks! I'll send this to Andrew after he releases the next -mm and
hopefully picks up the patchset again.
 
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