From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Satish Kumar <m_satish@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bdev manipulation at block layer level
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:50:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010725115055.D834@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010725091716.71588.qmail@web11502.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010725091716.71588.qmail@web11502.mail.yahoo.com>
On Wed, Jul 25 2001, Satish Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a host PC connected to a disk array with
> alternate paths to an end scsi disk.
> I attempted load balancing across paths by changing
> the b_dev & b_rdev ib the bufer_head list in
> ll_rw_block function of ll_rw_blk.c (block layer), and
> was successful in load balancing with data integrity,
> on linux 2.2.16.
> However, when I try the same stunt with a linux 2.4 (
> &2.4.2) kernel, I am seeing corruption occasionally.
> Can anyone let me know if I am missing anything ?
You must not change b_dev, that will screw the cache! Just change b_rdev
to redirect the I/O and it should work.
--
Jens Axboe
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2001-07-25 9:17 bdev manipulation at block layer level Satish Kumar
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