On 07/31/2012 09:25 AM, NeilBrown wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:08:55 +0200 Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 07/26/2012 04:58 AM, NeilBrown wrote: >>> Hi Jens, >>> the following series makes a number of changes to plugging, moving >>> common code from md and umem into block, and modifying it to allow >>> md to get more value out of it. >>> They've been sitting in -next for a while. >>> Are you OK with me forwarding them to Linus, or would you rather they >>> went though your tree? >> >> Thanks Neil, looks good. I will apply them to my tree and do some basic >> testing, too, then push it off for this round (where I haven't pushed >> out yet). >> > > Thanks Jens, > However I've just today discovered that the very first patch causes a real > regression in throughput for RAID5 and while I'm sure I can fix it with a > subsequent patch (once I figure out exactly what it happening) it might make > sense to hold them all back for 3.7. > > However if you would like to take them now and fix up later (it is only a > performance regression so it won't really affect bisection) I can work with > that. If you're confident we can fix it in this cycle (sounds like it, if you have a grasp on the situation), then I don't think that should stop us. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html