Re: [patch 0/9] buffered write deadlock fix

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:31:37 +0100 (CET)
Nick Piggin <[email protected]> wrote:

> The following set of patches attempt to fix the buffered write
> locking problems (and there are a couple of peripheral patches
> and cleanups there too).
> 
> Patches against 2.6.20-rc6. I was hoping that 2.6.20-rc6-mm2 would
> be an easier diff with the fsaio patches gone, but the readahead
> rewrite clashes badly :(

Well fsaio is restored, but there's now considerable doubt over it due to
the recent febril febrility.

How bad is the clash with the readahead patches?

Clashes with git-block are likely, too.

Bugfixes come first, so I will drop readahead and fsaio and git-block to get
this work completed if needed - please work agaisnt mainline.

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