Bug 467829 – md: pass down BIO_RW_SYNC in raid{1,10}' applied to RHEL4 kernel

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Bug 467829 - md: pass down BIO_RW_SYNC in raid{1,10}' applied to RHEL4 kernel

Summary:	md: pass down BIO_RW_SYNC in raid{1,10}' applied to RHEL4 kernel

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	4.7
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	high Severity high
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Wade Mealing
QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team
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Reported:	2008-10-21 02:08 EDT by Wade Mealing
Modified:	2018-10-19 22:57 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Clones:	489447 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed:	2009-05-18 15:26:33 EDT
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patch (3.79 KB, text/html) 2008-10-21 18:13 EDT, Wade Mealing	no flags	Details
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

External Trackers
Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2009:1024	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 kernel security and bug fix update	2009-05-18 10:57:26 EDT

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Description Wade Mealing 2008-10-21 02:08:24 EDT

Description of problem:

According  http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.kernel.org/msg06778.html the patch would fix several performance issues on RHEL4 with RAID1 and RAID10. A customer need this patch backported to the RHEL4 kernel.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kernel-2.6.9-78.EL.src.rpm

Comment 2 Wade Mealing 2008-10-21 18:13:57 EDT

Created attachment 321097 [details]
patch

Comment 5 RHEL Product and Program Management 2009-03-12 14:57:07 EDT

Since RHEL 4.8 External Beta has begun, and this bugzilla remains 
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as exception or 
blocker.

Comment 8 RHEL Product and Program Management 2009-03-23 10:57:54 EDT

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 9 Jan Tluka 2009-03-23 11:19:43 EDT

QA ACK for RHEL4.8. If possible, could customer provide performance comparison of patched/unpatched kernel?

Comment 11 Vivek Goyal 2009-03-25 09:29:26 EDT

Committed in 85.EL . RPMS are available at http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/

Comment 14 Chris Ward 2009-05-05 09:58:48 EDT

Any updates here? Has this issue been resolved in the RHEL 4.8 Beta? later kernel?

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2009-05-18 15:26:33 EDT

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1024.html

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