For some reason the subject of the mail got lost, fixed it. On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:09:16AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This series fixes a wide range of issues with the pnfs block layout driver. > > Before this we were seeing frequent silent data corruption, softlockups and > kernel crashes when running both user applications and test cases like xfstests. > > After this rewrite of the I/O path we've sorted out all issues under normal > operations, although error handling in the block layout driver and its > interaction with the core nfs and pnfs code still needs further work. > > It was pointed out that the requirement for blocksizes smaller or equal to > the page size conflicts with existing servers. From the state of the code > I'm very sure it was never used for real against those servers, but as > soon as someone signs up to testing and fix support for these servers I'm > happy to land a helping hand, although rock solid support probably is > imposible. > > This work was sponsored by NetApp, Inc. > > Changes since V1: > - added two more layout stateid handling fixes > - change the layoutget path so that the layout driver is responsible for > freeing the spliced in payload. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ---end quoted text--- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
