Hi Leah, Thanks for your response! I can reliably reproduce the issue, so I'll try to create a patch and let you know. Wishing you a lovely day! Best, Marius On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 at 13:31, Leah Rumancik <leah.rumancik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Marius, > > Thanks for the bug report. If you can reliably reproduce this issue > and can provide a patch which fixes it, I can add that patch to the > next set of 5.15 backports. I am a bit limited for time at the moment > though and trying to work on the backlog of backports into 6.1.y as > well, so I am not sure what the exact timeline would look for a 5.15.y > set yet. > > - Leah > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 8:42 PM Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 08:05:22AM -0700, Marius Fleischer wrote: > > > Hi Dave, > > > > > > Thank you so much for your detailed explanations! > > > > > > > > Do you think it would make sense to backport that patch to 5.15.156 (the > > > > > LTS kernel)? > > > > > > > > That's up to the 5.15 LTS maintainers to decide. They also need to > > > > weigh up the fact that xlog_cil_kvmalloc() doesn't exist anymore in > > > > the upstream code base. i.e. we found other places that had the same > > > > kvmalloc() performance problems, and so lifted that code up further > > > > and used it in other places in XFS.... > > > > > > > > > > Understood. Please allow me one last follow-up question. Did I add the correct > > > maintainers/mailing lists to reach the 5.15 LTS maintainers? If not, > > > how do I find > > > the correct addresses? I used scripts/get_maintainer.pl as suggested here > > > (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/reporting-issues.html) > > > to locate maintainers/mailing lists. > > > > You got it correct -- Leah is the 5.15 maintainer of record. > > > > --D > > > > > Wishing you a lovely week! > > > > > > Best, > > > Marius
