Re: linux-next: manual merge of the ext4 tree with Linus' tree

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Mar 25 2011 - 10:45:55 EST


Hello, Stephen, Ted.

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:56:43PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Today's linux-next merge of the ext4 tree got a conflict in
> fs/ext4/super.c between commit fd89d5f2030a ("ext4: convert to
> alloc_workqueue()") from Linus' tree and commit 198868f35de9 ("ext4: Use
> single thread to perform DIO unwritten convertion") from the ext4 tree.
>
> I just used the ext4 tree version.

Both are about the same conversion but the one using alloc_workqueue()
is better because 1. create_singlethread_workqueue() is going away and
2. it doesn't require strict ordering among queued works.

Ted, what do you think?

Thanks.

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tejun
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