Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:55:14 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: smp dead lock of io_request_lock/queue_lock patch |
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Doug Ledford wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:48, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 04:12:30PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > as the patch discussed in this thread, i.e. pure (partially > > > > vintage) bugfixes. > > > > > > Both SuSE and Red Hat submit bugfixes they put in the respective trees to > > > marcelo already. There will not be many "pure bugfixes" that you can find in > > > vendor trees but not in marcelo's tree. > > > > I haven't seen SCSI patches sumission for 2.4 from the vendors on linux-scsi > > for ages. In fact I asked Jens & Doug two times whether they could sort out > > the distro patches for the 2.4 stack and post them, but it seems they're busy > > enough with real work so this never happened. > > More or less. But part of it also is that a lot of the patches I've > written are on top of other patches that people don't want (aka, the > iorl patch). I've got a mlqueue patch that actually *really* should go > into mainline because it solves a slew of various problems in one go, > but the current version of the patch depends on some semantic changes > made by the iorl patch. So, sorting things out can sometimes be > difficult. But, I've been told to go ahead and do what I can as far as > getting the stuff out, so I'm taking some time to try and get a bk tree > out there so people can see what I'm talking about. Once I've got the > full tree out there, then it might be possible to start picking and > choosing which things to port against mainline so that they don't depend > on patches like the iorl patch.
Hi,
Merging "straight" _bugfixes_ (I think all we agree that merging performance enhancements at this point in 2.4 is not interesting) which, as you said, get reviewed by Jens/James/others is OK.
What is this mlqueue patchset fixing ? To tell you the truth, I'm not aware of the SCSI stack problems. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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