Re: [PATCH 00/14] filemap and readahead fixes

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Apr 10 2009 - 01:17:52 EST


On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:54:40 +0800 Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:36:43PM +0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:50:39 +0800 Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > This is a set of fixes and cleanups for filemap and readahead.
> >
> > Unfortunately page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry.patch got dropped so
> > the first five patches are no longer applicable. Patch #11 also died.
> >
> > Can you please respin the remains against current mainline?
>
> Do you mean rebase them onto linux-next, bypassing Ying Hans' patches?
>

Those patches are still several akpm-hours ahead in my backlog queue.
They don't seem to have generated much attention and someone (ie: you)
had substantial comments which haven't been replied to yet. So I'd
expect another version to be forthcoming.

But I don't mind either way. I guess the main question here is: do we
see a need to squeeze any of these things into 2.6.30?

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