[GIT PULL] Block IO bits for 3.3-rc

Hi Linus, See below for the initial 3.3-rc1 git pull request in the block IO area. Not too much queued up for this round, mostly some code churn to improve some of the existing functionality. It has the following changes: - The big io context ...

Message posted on the January 15th, 2012 - 4:50 AM ET

[GIT PULL] block fixes for 2.6.36-rc5

Hi Linus, A small batch of fixes. Two important fixes, correcting a bug in the unified request/bio command flags causing blk_rq_map_kern() to flag writes incorrectly, and the oops in CFQ with cgroups and a usb key. The small 3-patch series from Jan ...

Message posted on the September 22nd, 2010 - 3:50 AM ET

[GIT PULL] block fixes for 3.1-rc

Hi Linus, Final round of patches for 3.1. - Early in the cycle, a patch removing the CFQ special treatment of meta data requests was merged. This was later found to be causing slight performance regressions, so we reverted it. However, in the mean ...

Message posted on the September 21st, 2011 - 8:20 AM ET

[GIT PULL] Block drivers for 3.3-rc

Hi Linus, Please see below for the 3.3-rc1 block driver pull request. Essentially two different categories here: - Adds the driver for the Micron RealSSD P320 pci-express flash card. - Discard improvements for xen block front/back driver This ...

Message posted on the January 15th, 2012 - 5:00 AM ET

[GIT PULL] block/IO bits for 2.6.36-rc1

Hi Linus, This is the big round of updates for the IO bits for 2.6.36-rc1. Not sure what happened on the excessive number of merges listed as: Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' into for-next as these should 1) just have been regular fast forwards, and 2) ...

Message posted on the August 6th, 2010 - 6:40 AM ET

[GIT PULL] Block driver bits for 3.5

Hi Linus, On top of the for-3.5/core pull request, here are the driver related changes for 3.5. It contains: - The floppy changes from Jiri. Jiri is now also marked as the maintainer of floppy.c, I shall be publically branding his forehead with ...

Message posted on the May 30th, 2012 - 9:00 AM ET

[GIT PULL] Block IO core changes for 3.10

Hi Linus, Below are the block layer core changes for 3.10. The pull request contains: - Major bit is Kents prep work for immutable bio vecs. - Stable candidate fix for a scheduling-while-atomic in the queue bypass operation. - Fix for the hang ...

Message posted on the May 8th, 2013 - 11:00 AM ET

[GIT PULL] block/IO bits for 2.6.35-rc1

Hi, These are a bunch of updates for 2.6.35-rc1. The major components: - Revert of the two writeback fixes that made WB_SYNC_NONE writeback from umount actually work. They apparently cause problems for Christoph, so revert them until we figure ...

Message posted on the June 4th, 2010 - 9:00 AM ET

[GIT PULL] block fixes for 3.9-rc

Hi Linus, Collection of fixes that have been queued up since the merge window opened, hence postponed until later in the cycle. The pull request contains: - A bunch of fixes for the xen blk front/back driver. - A round of fixes for the new IBM ...

Message posted on the March 29th, 2013 - 10:40 AM ET

[GIT PULL] block driver bits for 3.7

Hi Linus, Later than I would have liked, but I was traveling around the merge window and then a fixes snuck in past that and I wanted to ensure that everything was fully baked again. There was a particular issue around a floppy regression due to ...

Message posted on the October 29th, 2012 - 1:30 PM ET

[GIT PULL] block/for-3.5/core: pull in cgroup/for-3.5

Hello, guys. cgroup/for-3.5 currently contains the following changes which blk-cgroup needs to proceed with the on-going cleanup. * Dynamic addition and removal of cftypes to make config/stat file handling modular for policies. * cgroup removal ...

Message posted on the April 1st, 2012 - 4:10 PM ET

[GIT PULL] block/io bits for 2.6.35-rc

Hi Linus, Some important fixes for 2.6.35: - A set of patches fixing the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback from Christoph. So we should finally have both functional and working WB_SYNC_NONE from umount context. - Two fixes for the pipe resizing and fcntl() ...

Message posted on the June 10th, 2010 - 9:50 AM ET

[GIT PULL] block drivers for 2.6.39-rc

Hi Linus, This is the pull request for the block driver updates for 2.6.39. Two things here: - Big drbd update, as per usual... - cciss update. Please pull. git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git for-2.6.39/drivers Andreas Gruenbacher (22): ...

Message posted on the March 26th, 2011 - 2:00 PM ET

[GIT PULL] block bits for 3.1-rc

Hi Linus, This is a lot larger than it usually would be at this time. The reason is mostly the expedited merge window overlapping with my vacation. That said, the traffic in this branch in the last few weeks has only been fixes and it's continually ...

Message posted on the August 19th, 2011 - 9:20 AM ET

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