Re: Refactoring the checkpointer's fsync request queue

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Shawn Debnath <sdn(at)amazon(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Refactoring the checkpointer's fsync request queue
Date: 2019-01-22 14:33:48
Message-ID: CACjxUsNBgEPYy987jhcSB2C3-o5KeeE8-og=cqjkxykbXiHzMQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 8:27 AM Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> With the help of VMware's Dirk Hohndel (VMware's Chief Open Source
> Officer, a VP position near the top of the organization, and a
> personal friend of Linus), I have been fortunate enough to make
> contact directly with Linus Torvalds to discuss this issue. In emails
> to me he has told me that this patch is no longer provisional:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fff75eb2a08c2ac96404a2d79685668f3cf5a7a3
>
> Linus has given me permission to quote him, so here is a quote from an
> email he sent 2019-01-17:

> > That commit (b4678df184b3: "errseq: Always report a writeback error
> > once") was already backported to the stable trees (4.14 and 4.16), so
> > yes, everything should be fine. We did indeed miss old errors for a
> > while.

Sorry, but somehow I got the parent link rather that the intended
commit. Linus got it right, of course.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b4678df184b314a2bd47d2329feca2c2534aa12b
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