On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 18:40 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 05:38:55PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 11:06 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Now that REQ_META bios aren't treated specially in the CFQ I/O schedule
> > > anymore, we can tag all buffers as metadata to make blktrace traces more
> > > meaningful. Note that we use buffers also to zero out partial blocks
> > > in the preallocation / hole punching code, and while they operate on
> > > data blocks the zeros written certainly aren't data. I think this case
> > > is borderline metadata enough to not bother special casing it.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> >
> > This looks good. I plan to re-base the xfs master branch
> > after 3.1-rc1 is out, so I'll wait until after that to
> > commit this (and the others in this series).
>
> I'd prefer to get it out to Linus ASAP after some review. Just
> committing it to for-linus for now and later rebasing master on top
> should do fine for that.
OK, fine with me. I'll get that process started this evening.
-Alex
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