Re: (resend) [PATCH [linux-4.14.y]] dm cache: submit writethrough writes in parallel to origin and cache

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jul 30 2020 - 01:21:41 EST


On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 06:45:46PM -0500, John Donnelly wrote:
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> On 7/29/20 9:16 AM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 29 2020 at 7:55am -0400,
> > Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 01:51:19PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:00:14AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > > > > This mail needs to be saent to stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (now cc'd).
> > > > >
> > > > > Greg et al: please backport 2df3bae9a6543e90042291707b8db0cbfbae9ee9
> > > >
> > > > Now backported, thanks.
> > >
> > > Nope, it broke the build, I need something that actually works :)
> > >
> >
> > OK, I'll defer to John Donnelly to get back with you (and rest of
> > stable@). He is more invested due to SUSE also having this issue. I
> > can put focus to it if John cannot sort this out.
> >
> > Mike
> >
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> Hi.
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> Thank you for reaching out.
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> What specifically is broken? . If it that applying
> 2df3bae9a6543e90042291707b8db0cbfbae9ee9 to 4.14.y is failing?

yes, try it yourself and see!