Re: [PULL] bcache: based on for-4.10/block, multiple updates

[Eric Wheeler]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 01/31/2017 11:14 AM, Eric Wheeler wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Dec 2016, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> On 12/14/2016 06:50 PM, Eric Wheeler wrote:
> >>> Hi Jens,
> >>>
> >>> I know you're busy, so when you get a moment:
> >>>
> >>> I've not yet seen your ack/nack on this yet and I want to make sure it 
> >>> gets in before the merge window closes for v4.10.  I rebased it on 
> >>> for-4.10/block as you asked so its tested and ready to go as of 12/6 
> >>> unless you see something that I've missed.
> >>
> >> Pulled for 4.10, sorry about the delay.
> > 
> > Hi Jens,
> > 
> > Looking at 4.10-rc6, I see these two commits were merged:
> > 
> >>       bcache: partition support: add 16 minors per bcacheN device
> >>       bcache: Make gc wakeup sane, remove set_task_state()
> > 
> > but these were in the same 'for-4.10-block-bcache-updates' and don't
> > appear to have been applied:
> > 
> >>       bcache: introduce per-process ioprio-based bypass/writeback hints
> >>       bcache: documentation for ioprio cache hinting
> >>       bcache: update bio->bi_opf bypass/writeback REQ_ flag hints
> > 
> > Did I miss an email that caused their exclusion?
> > 
> > Did these get bumped to 4.11 for some reason?
> 
> I thought I sent out that reply, maybe I didn't. I dropped the
> last three for two reasons:
> 
> 1) They happened after the merge window, and it's really a feature
>    addon that should have gone in earlier
  
Onto 4.11 then.   Hopefully this is early enough :)

> 
> 2) There seemed to be confusion and discussion around the interface
>    that needed to be resolved first.

None that I'm aware of.  This is a bcache-only feature and doesn't affect 
non-bcache users. In fact, people are using it as a patch with good 
results since they can control their erase-block churn.  Kent Overstreet 
acked it, too.

Can you pull this for 4.11?

Thank you for your help!

--
Eric Wheeler



> 
> Hope that explains it.
> 
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> Jens Axboe
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