From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755704AbYIQSMT (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:12:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754762AbYIQSL7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:11:59 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:37574 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754628AbYIQSL6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:11:58 -0400 Message-ID: <48D1486F.7060506@goop.org> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:11:59 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Lalancette CC: Jens Axboe , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND]: Expand Xen blkfront for > 16 xvd References: <48D0BA0A.1070709@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <48D0BA0A.1070709@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? Thanks, J From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND]: Expand Xen blkfront for > 16 xvd Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:11:59 -0700 Message-ID: <48D1486F.7060506@goop.org> References: <48D0BA0A.1070709@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <48D0BA0A.1070709@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Chris Lalancette Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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? Thanks, J