2.6.37-next problems with fs dcache patches.

Wish I was able to bisect this down better, but a number of steps in the bisect had to be skipped, this series is *not* bisect-clean. Sorry I didn't do this earlier, but I got detoured chasing the mlockall() issue which originally looked like the ...

Message posted on the December 22nd, 2010 - 2:50 PM ET

Linux 3.2

So 3.2 is out, and the merge window for 3.3 is thus officially open. I delayed 3.2 first a few days to wait for the final linux-next ("final" in the sense that that's what I'll fetch to decide whether something has been in linux-next for ...

Message posted on the January 4th, 2012 - 8:00 PM ET

[PATCH V2 01/02] MIPS: Build uasm-generated code only once to avoid CPU Hotplug problem

This and the next patch resolve memory corruption problems while CPU hotplug. Without these patches, memory corruption can triggered easily as below: On a quad-core MIPS platform, use "spawn" of UnixBench-5.1.3 (http:// ...

Message posted on the March 17th, 2013 - 8:00 AM ET

Linux 3.6

When I did the -rc7 announcement a week ago, I said I might have to do an -rc8, but a week passed, and things have been calm, and I honestly cannot see a major reason to do another rc. So here it is, 3.6 final. Sure, I'd have been happier with even ...

Message posted on the September 30th, 2012 - 8:40 PM ET

[PATCH 0/12] Per superblock cache reclaim

This series converts the VFS cache shrinkers to a per-superblock shrinker, and provides a callout from the superblock shrinker to allow the filesystem to shrink internal caches proportionally to the amount of reclaim done to the VFS caches. The ...

Message posted on the June 2nd, 2011 - 3:10 AM ET

next problems dcache