Re: 2.5 merge candidate list, final version. (End of "crunch time" series.)

From: Nikita Danilov (Nikita@Namesys.COM)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 04:35:56 EST


Jeff Garzik writes:
> Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> > We are going to submit a patch appropriate for inclusion as an
> > experimental FS on Halloween. I hope you will forgive our pushing
> > the limit timewise, it is not by choice, but the algorithms we used to
> > more than double reiserfs V3 performance were, quite frankly, hard to
> > code.
>
>
>
> Does your merge change the core code at all? Does it add new syscalls?
>

Here is a list of things reiser4 needs from the core:

 (1) export of generic_forget_inode()

 (2) export of page_cache_readahead()

 (3) export of remove_from_page_cache()

 (4) export of fsync_super()

 (5) patch to allow safe sharing of ->journal_info pointer in task_struct
     by several users

(1)-(4) are only necessary to compile reiser4 as module.

(5) is good not only for reiser4. Without it different file systems
using ->journal_info cannot "co-exist peacefully".

No new system calls are introduced (yet).

Nikita.

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