Re: buffered write patches, -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jul 11 2007 - 13:24:43 EST


On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:39:44 +0200 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:

> > pagefault-in-write deadlock fixes. Will hold for 2.6.24.
>
> Why that?

At Nick's request. More work is needed and the code hasn't had a lot of
testing/thought/exposure/review.

> This stuff has been in forever and is needed at various
> levels. We need this in for anything to move forward on the buffered
> write front.
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