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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Sergei Shtepa <sergei.shtepa@veeam.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	pavel.tide@veeam.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] dm: add DM_INTERPOSED_FLAG
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2021 09:30:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210314093038.GC3773360@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1615563895-28565-4-git-send-email-sergei.shtepa@veeam.com>

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 06:44:55PM +0300, Sergei Shtepa wrote:
> DM_INTERPOSED_FLAG allow to create DM targets on "the fly".
> Underlying block device opens without a flag FMODE_EXCL.
> DM target receives bio from the original device via
> bdev_interposer.

This is more of a philopical comment, but the idea of just letting the
interposed reopen the device by itself seems like a bad idea.  I think
that is probably better hidden in the block layer interposer attachment
function, which could do the extra blkdev_get_by_dev for the caller.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-14  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-12 15:44 [PATCH v7 0/3] block device interposer Sergei Shtepa
2021-03-12 15:44 ` [PATCH v7 1/3] block: add blk_mq_is_queue_frozen() Sergei Shtepa
2021-03-12 19:06   ` Mike Snitzer
2021-03-14  9:14     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-15 12:06       ` Sergei Shtepa
2021-03-12 15:44 ` [PATCH v7 2/3] block: add bdev_interposer Sergei Shtepa
2021-03-14  9:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-15 13:06     ` Sergei Shtepa
2021-03-16  8:09   ` Ming Lei
2021-03-16 16:35     ` Sergei Shtepa
2021-03-17  3:03       ` Ming Lei
2021-03-17 12:22         ` Sergei Shtepa
2021-03-17 15:04           ` Mike Snitzer
2021-03-17 18:14             ` Sergei Shtepa
2021-03-17 19:13               ` Mike Snitzer
2021-03-18 14:56                 ` Sergei Shtepa
2021-03-17 14:58         ` Mike Snitzer
2021-03-12 15:44 ` [PATCH v7 3/3] dm: add DM_INTERPOSED_FLAG Sergei Shtepa
2021-03-12 19:00   ` Mike Snitzer
2021-03-15 12:29     ` Sergei Shtepa
2021-03-14  9:30   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-03-15 13:25     ` Sergei Shtepa
2021-03-16 15:23       ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-16 15:25         ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-16 16:20           ` Sergei Shtepa

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