On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 05:27:36PM +0200, Andre Noll wrote:
On Thu, May 02, 16:10, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote
Ok, then how about we hold off on this patch for 4.9.y then. "no one" should be using 4.9.y in a "server system" anymore, unless you happen to have an enterprise kernel based on it. So we should be fine as the users of the older kernels don't run xfs.
Well, we do run xfs on top of bcache on vanilla 4.9 kernels on a few dozen production servers here. Mainly because we ran into all sorts of issues with newer kernels (not necessary related to xfs). 4.9, OTOH, appears to be rock solid for our workload.
Great, but what is wrong with 4.14.y or better yet, 4.19.y? Do those also work for your workload? If not, we should fix that, and soon :)
I would _STRONGLY_ recommend moving of of 4.9 on any non-SoC-based system at this point in time, there should not be any reason to stick with it, unless you are paying a company to provide support for it.
thanks,
greg k-h