Re: [PATCH 1/1] [PPC] 8xx swap bug-fix

Dear Vitaly,

in message [ref] you wrote:

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:24:21 -0600
Scott Wood wrote:

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On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 12:22:17PM +0100, Jochen Friedrich wrote:

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Hi Yuri,

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 Here is the patch which makes Linux-2.6 swap routines operate
correctly on the ppc-8xx-based machines.

is there any 8xx board left which isn't ported to ARCH=powerpc?

More importantly, is this something that is also broken in
arch/powerpc?  It looks like it has the same code...

yes, it is. Though there is currently no best-at-all solution, this looks worth trying.
I'll have a look how the 8xx feels under load and report back.

Have you been able to check if arch/powerpc needs similar fixing?


Also, what is the current state of this patch? I would like to avoid
that it get's lost completeley.


BenH commented on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:37:07 +1100:

Best is to just remove writeback completely and let the generic
code handle it.

Has this been considered / tested by anybody?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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