From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755484AbYIQSUs (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:20:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756463AbYIQSUi (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:20:38 -0400 Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:34674 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756460AbYIQSUh (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:20:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:20:33 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Chris Lalancette , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND]: Expand Xen blkfront for > 16 xvd Message-ID: <20080917182032.GE20055@kernel.dk> References: <48D0BA0A.1070709@redhat.com> <48D1486F.7060506@goop.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48D1486F.7060506@goop.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 17 2008, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Chris Lalancette wrote: > > Until recently, the maximum number of xvd block devices you could attach to > > a Xen domU was 16. This limitation turned out to be problematic for some users, > > so it was expanded to handle a much larger number of disks. However, this > > requires a couple of changes in the way that blkfront scans for disks. This > > functionality is already present in the Xen linux-2.6.18-xen.hg tree; the > > attached patch adds this functionality to the mainline xen-blkfront > > implementation. I successfully tested it on a 2.6.25 tree, and build tested it > > on 2.6.27-rc3. > > > > Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette > > Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge > > > > Jens, do you have this one already? I do not. Looks fine to me, I'll add it for 2.6.28. -- Jens Axboe