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From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Promise_Linux <Promise_Linux@promise.com>
Subject: Re: block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits instead
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 19:43:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF69758.40900@fusionio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1r5e8ncmz.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>

On 2010-11-26 01:37, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Jens" == Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> writes:
> 
> Jens> Great, the two different values and needing to sync them was
> Jens> horrible.  What kind of testing did you do? Have to be a little
> Jens> extra careful at this point.
> 
> Yeah, we should probably let it soak a bit in -next just to make sure.
> 
> There really aren't many devices from this millennium that don't support
> clustering. Which I guess is why we haven't seen any problems.
> 
> I ended up disabling clustering in one of the FC drivers to test with a
> real workload. Threw in a BUG_ON(nsegs > queue_max_segments(q)) for good
> measure.
> 
> I also tested mixing and matching clustered and non-clustered bottom
> devices while stacking with DM.
> 
> New version below, fixing the things you and Matthew pointed out...

Thanks applied. Small plea for the future - please rewrite the subject
line to indicate a v2 (or whatever) of the patch. That will make them
harder to miss.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-01 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-20  1:24 QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER? Ed Lin - PTU
2010-11-25 15:21 ` [dm-devel] QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER? Martin K. Petersen
2010-11-25 16:35   ` block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits instead Martin K. Petersen
2010-11-25 18:43     ` Jens Axboe
2010-11-26  0:37       ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-11-26  2:28         ` Mike Snitzer
2010-11-26  2:53           ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-11-26  9:00           ` Jens Axboe
2010-12-01 18:43         ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2010-11-29 19:08   ` [dm-devel] QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER? Ed Lin - PTU
2010-11-30 18:40     ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-12-07 21:48       ` [stable] " Greg KH

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