Re: [PATCH 0/9] XFS update for 3.0-stable

[Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 01:13:36PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This is the series of XFS fixes from current mainline which is important
> enough for 3.0-stable.  All but the first three would also be needed
> for 3.1-stable, but given the limited resources I plan to concentrate
> on 3.0-stable.  If anyone wants to take care for 3.1 by building a kernel
> with the remaining patches and run QA on them you are more welcome to
> help out with that tree.
> 
> Note that while the description of
> 
>         xfs: don't serialise direct IO reads on page cache checks
> 
> doesn't mention that is is a regression fix we later noticed that a
> large part of the speedups wasn't in fact new, but fixed a performance
> regression introduced in Linux 2.6.38 with commit:
> 
>       xfs: introduce xfs_rw_lock() helpers for locking the inode

Thanks for the series of patches, I'll queue them up after this latest
3.0 release happens on Monday.

greg k-h